# Kerberos auth howto

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kerberos-auth-howto/78717>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** es-hadoop\
**Created:** [March 15, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kerberos-auth-howto/78717 "2017-03-15T14:21:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Luca\_Belluccini](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/luca_belluccini/32/33239_2.png) [@Luca\_Belluccini](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Luca_Belluccini)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kerberos-auth-howto/78717/1 "2017-03-15T14:21:00Z")

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Hello everyone!

I would like to know if there is any documentation to use existing kerberos auth to be able to authenticate in Elasticsearch (with X-Pack).

The idea would be to add the user-role mapping in Elasticsearch and delegate the auth on Hadoop/Spark side using Kerberos.

Is it supported?

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**Author:** ![james.baiera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/james.baiera/32/10209_2.png) [@james.baiera](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/james.baiera)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 5:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kerberos-auth-howto/78717/2 "2017-03-15T17:52:16Z")

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@Luca_Belluccini To my knowledge there is not yet any core functionality for authenticating in X-Pack with Kerberos.

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**Author:** ![Luca\_Belluccini](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/luca_belluccini/32/33239_2.png) [@Luca\_Belluccini](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Luca_Belluccini)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 8:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kerberos-auth-howto/78717/3 "2017-03-16T08:32:07Z")

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I was thinking about some way to let Hadoop authenticate with X-Pack but it is still not the case.  
We'll check with support if there are any plans to do so.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 8:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kerberos-auth-howto/78717/4 "2017-04-13T08:32:12Z")

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