# Kibana can't sign in

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cant-sign-in/339131
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 24, 2023, 7:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cant-sign-in/339131 "2023-07-24T19:21:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![dro](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dro/32/131811_2.png) [@dro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dro)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2023, 7:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cant-sign-in/339131/1 "2023-07-24T19:21:22Z")

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Kibana is not accepting the default `elasticsearch-master-credentials`

The following ELK stack configuration is all version `8.5.1` running in a single node cluster:

```plaintext
pod/elasticsearch-master-0 1/1 Running 0 28m
pod/logstash-0 1/1 Running 0 28m
pod/elk-filebeat-j78fx 1/1 Running 0 28m
pod/elk-kibana-8596dcf6c-rdpzt 1/1 Running 0 25m

NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
service/logstash-headless ClusterIP None <none> 9600/TCP 28m
service/elasticsearch-master-headless ClusterIP None <none> 9200/TCP,9300/TCP 28m
service/logstash ClusterIP 10.43.12.129 <none> 5044/TCP,8080/TCP 28m
service/elasticsearch-master ClusterIP 10.43.206.4 <none> 9200/TCP,9300/TCP 28m
service/elk-kibana ClusterIP 10.43.185.0 <none> 5601/TCP 25m

NAME DESIRED CURRENT READY UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE NODE SELECTOR AGE
daemonset.apps/elk-filebeat 1 1 1 1 1 <none> 28m

NAME READY UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE AGE
deployment.apps/elk-kibana 1/1 1 1 25m

NAME DESIRED CURRENT READY AGE
replicaset.apps/elk-kibana-8596dcf6c 1 1 1 25m

NAME READY AGE
statefulset.apps/elasticsearch-master 1/1 28m
statefulset.apps/logstash 1/1 28m

```

I port forward the kibana service and receive the `Welcome to Elastic` log on screen when connecting to `http://www.localhost:5602/login`

To log in I utilize the default `elasticsearch-master-credentials` username and password via

```auto
echo $(kubectl get secrets -n analytics elasticsearch-master-credentials -ojsonpath='{.data.username}' | base64 -d)
elastic
echo $(kubectl get secrets -n analytics elasticsearch-master-credentials -ojsonpath='{.data.password}' | base64 -d)
XSVoEFBANicJNZ3q

```

When attempting to log in, I receive the `Username or password is incorrect. Please try again.` error message and see the below in the elasticsearch POD log.

```auto
{"@timestamp":"2023-07-24T19:15:20.922Z", "log.level": "INFO", "message":"Authentication of [elastic] was terminated by realm [reserved] - failed to authenticate user [elastic]", "ecs.version": "1.2.0","service.name":"ES_ECS","event.dataset":"elasticsearch.server","process.thread.name":"elasticsearch[elasticsearch-master-0][system_critical_read][T#1]","log.logger":"org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.authc.RealmsAuthenticator","trace.id":"87d4f012851ecf678aa090d8cd662881","elasticsearch.cluster.uuid":"qti4HuKWS7ewy2HWIlu9KQ","elasticsearch.node.id":"16fM8XeXQ0KiY0uCtnetKg","elasticsearch.node.name":"elasticsearch-master-0","elasticsearch.cluster.name":"elasticsearch"}

```

Kibana:

```auto
[2023-07-24T19:15:20.844+00:00][INFO][plugins.security.routes] Logging in with provider "basic" (basic)

```

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### Author: ![dro](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dro/32/131811_2.png) [@dro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dro)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2023, 9:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cant-sign-in/339131/2 "2023-07-24T21:12:08Z")

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Additional tests.

Check the decoded data of the `elasticsearch-master-certs` which contained:

ca.crt  
tls.crt  
tls.key

Matched the credentials at `/usr/share/elasticsearch/config/certs` within the elasticsearch container located. Both credential sets match.

Setup a port-forward for to access port 9200 of the elasticsearch container locally:

```auto
kubectl port-forward service/elasticsearch-master 9200:9200 -n analytics
Forwarding from 127.0.0.1:9200 -> 9200
Forwarding from [::1]:9200 -> 9200
Handling connection for 9200

```

Yet `curl` fails to get the cluster health so my issue appears to be with Elasticsearch? I can paste the full Elasticsearch logs here if they are of any benefit.

```auto
$curl -X GET "https://localhost:9200/_cluster/health" --key esearch_tls.crt -k -u elastic:XSVoEFBANicJNZ3q --verbose
vagrant@dd-ubuntu2204-sscld120npwd-a4f08c:~$ curl -X GET "https://localhost:9200/_cluster/health" --key esearch_tls.crt -k -u elastic:XSVoEFBANicJNZ3q --verbose
Note: Unnecessary use of -X or --request, GET is already inferred.
* Uses proxy env variable no_proxy == 'localhost,127.0.0.1'
* Trying 127.0.0.1:9200...
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 9200 (#0)
* ALPN, offering h2
* ALPN, offering http/1.1
* TLSv1.0 (OUT), TLS header, Certificate Status (22):
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS header, Certificate Status (22):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS header, Finished (20):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS header, Supplemental data (23):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Encrypted Extensions (8):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, CERT verify (15):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS header, Finished (20):
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS header, Supplemental data (23):
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
* ALPN, server did not agree to a protocol
* Server certificate:
* subject: CN=elasticsearch-master
* start date: Jul 24 19:09:51 2023 GMT
* expire date: Jul 23 19:09:51 2024 GMT
* issuer: CN=elasticsearch-ca
* SSL certificate verify result: unable to get local issuer certificate (20), continuing anyway.
* Server auth using Basic with user 'elastic'
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS header, Supplemental data (23):
> GET /_cluster/health HTTP/1.1
> Host: localhost:9200
> Authorization: Basic ZWxhc3RpYzpYU1ZvRUZCQU5pY0pOWjNx
> User-Agent: curl/7.81.0
> Accept: */*
> 
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS header, Supplemental data (23):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS header, Supplemental data (23):
* Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
< HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
* Authentication problem. Ignoring this.
< WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="security" charset="UTF-8"
< WWW-Authenticate: Bearer realm="security"
< WWW-Authenticate: ApiKey
< content-type: application/json;charset=utf-8
< content-length: 495
< 
* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
{"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"security_exception","reason":"unable to authenticate user [elastic] for REST request [/_cluster/health]","header":{"WWW-Authenticate":["Basic realm=\"security\" charset=\"UTF-8\"","Bearer realm=\"security\"","ApiKey"]}}],"type":"security_exception","reason":"unable to authenticate user [elastic] for REST request [/_cluster/health]","header":{"WWW-Authenticate":["Basic realm=\"security\" charset=\"UTF-8\"","Bearer realm=\"security\"","ApiKey"]}},"status":401}

```

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### Author: ![dro](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dro/32/131811_2.png) [@dro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dro)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2023, 10:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cant-sign-in/339131/3 "2023-07-24T22:35:39Z")

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Turns out the issue was on my end with the secret generation being overwritten. All works now.

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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: [August 21, 2023, 10:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cant-sign-in/339131/4 "2023-08-21T22:35:47Z")

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