# Kibana authentication with Nginx prompting password again and again

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-authentication-with-nginx-prompting-password-again-and-again/297074>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 13, 2022, 11:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-authentication-with-nginx-prompting-password-again-and-again/297074 "2022-02-13T11:47:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Blason](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/blason/32/42284_2.png) [@Blason](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Blason)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2022, 11:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-authentication-with-nginx-prompting-password-again-and-again/297074/1 "2022-02-13T11:47:33Z")

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Hi Team,

I have a complete elastic-stack with x-pack security and its working fine. However my concern is I wanted to secure this with 2 FA or other basic authentication by putting it behind Nginx reverse proxy. Since this server is being accessed by multiple users I do not want to login to server and keep deleting the users.

Hence I wanted to enable another layer like nginx as described above. However after enabling nginx is prompting for authentication but its consistently prompting for authentication and I believe its sending username to authenticate with kibana.

How do I setup basic authentication with Kibana with x-pack on?

TIA  
Blason R

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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:** [February 13, 2022, 9:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-authentication-with-nginx-prompting-password-again-and-again/297074/2 "2022-02-13T21:25:53Z")

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Does this loop happen without nginx in use?

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**Author:** ![Blason](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/blason/32/42284_2.png) [@Blason](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Blason)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 5:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-authentication-with-nginx-prompting-password-again-and-again/297074/3 "2022-02-14T17:10:44Z")

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Nope not without nginx and with x-pack it lands me directly to login page

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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:** [February 15, 2022, 12:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-authentication-with-nginx-prompting-password-again-and-again/297074/4 "2022-02-15T00:14:02Z")

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Then it sounds like an nginx issue rather than a Elastic one sorry.

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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:** [March 15, 2022, 12:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-authentication-with-nginx-prompting-password-again-and-again/297074/5 "2022-03-15T00:14:42Z")

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