# Kibana authentication?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-authentication/2581>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 12, 2015, 3:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-authentication/2581 "2015-06-12T15:13:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![saif](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/saif/32/37431_2.png) [@saif](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saif)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 3:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-authentication/2581/1 "2015-06-12T15:13:51Z")

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Kibana 4 to its own web server, it would be possible to have authentication as ldap ....  
but now there is no other solution secures the interface Kibana  
install nginx?  
there is no other solution

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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:** [June 13, 2015, 4:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-authentication/2581/2 "2015-06-13T04:37:13Z")

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Currently you need to build you own proxy for this.

There are enhancements coming to later versions of KB around this.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-authentication/2581/3 "2017-07-06T14:18:12Z")

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