# Kibana 6.4 prompting basic authentication after upgrading Elasticsearch from 5.6 to 6.4

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-6-4-prompting-basic-authentication-after-upgrading-elasticsearch-from-5-6-to-6-4/165086>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 21, 2019, 4:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-6-4-prompting-basic-authentication-after-upgrading-elasticsearch-from-5-6-to-6-4/165086 "2019-01-21T16:25:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 1:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-6-4-prompting-basic-authentication-after-upgrading-elasticsearch-from-5-6-to-6-4/165086/4 "2019-01-22T01:54:09Z")

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Please don't cross post, it makes it much harder for people to help you if they have to jump between different topics 🙂

> [@Kibana 6.4 prompting basic authentication after upgrading ELK stack from 5.6 to 6.4](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-6-4-prompting-basic-authentication-after-upgrading-elk-stack-from-5-6-to-6-4/165085/2):
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> Hello, I am not sure how searchguard works. These are upgrade docs: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack/current/upgrading-elastic-stack.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack/current/upgrading-elastic-stack.html) We also need to generate passwords: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/setup-passwords.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/setup-passwords.html) Please note searchguard is a commercial independent plugin and we don't support it. Thanks, Bhavya

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