# Kibana-5.6.10 username and password **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [September 10, 2018, 7:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-5-6-10-username-and-password/147900 "2018-09-10T07:13:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bleyc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bleyc/32/31831_2.png) [@Bleyc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bleyc)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 7:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-5-6-10-username-and-password/147900/1 "2018-09-10T07:13:17Z")
good afternooon folks, i have a running installation of Kibana-5.6.10, i want to protect the UI with username and password access. however i can't find the configuration in the _kibana.yml_ file. another question...is it possible to have more than one set of username and password? thanks in advance. ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Fleming](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joe_fleming/32/3561_2.png) [@Joe\_Fleming](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joe_Fleming)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 6:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-5-6-10-username-and-password/147900/2 "2018-09-10T18:40:58Z")
> i want to protect the UI with username and password access. however i can't find the configuration in the kibana.yml file. This isn't something that's built into Kibana. If you want to add authorization to your Kibana instance, there's 2 main ways; 1) our commercial security product, or 2) using a proxy of some kind. For 1, you just need to install X-Pack and enable the trial license (eventually you'll have to pay for it). There's a ton of examples online, even [elastic.co](http://elastic.co), about how to set up 2, basically just using Apache or nginx to add auth (usually Basic auth) to the route. > is it possible to have more than one set of username and password? Depends what you use to provide the authentication layer. In the case of both 1 and 2 mentioned above, the answer is yes, but obviously the methods are different. 1 will give you a UI to do it from Kibana, 2 you'll have to look up how to do it with your proxy of choice, but answer is probably just a search away. ---
**Author:** ![Bleyc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bleyc/32/31831_2.png) [@Bleyc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bleyc)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2018, 8:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-5-6-10-username-and-password/147900/3 "2018-09-13T08:38:15Z")
Thanx Joe, that is very helpful ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2018, 8:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-5-6-10-username-and-password/147900/4 "2018-10-11T08:38:22Z")
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