# Kibana doesn't have permissions
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-doesnt-have-permissions/131345
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [May 10, 2018, 7:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-doesnt-have-permissions/131345 "2018-05-10T19:23:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@imparker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/imparker)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2018, 7:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-doesnt-have-permissions/131345/1 "2018-05-10T19:23:45Z")
After installing x-pack to the current version of ELK, I am unable to change settings on the web interface for Security, watcher, or logstash. Can only manage index patterns which aren't showing anything, even though I configured packetbeat with logstash & kibana user & passwords.
Please me know what logs or yml's you might need to help troubleshoot this. Thank you.
ELK: 6.2.4
OS: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
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### Author:  [@TimV](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimV)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2018, 2:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-doesnt-have-permissions/131345/2 "2018-05-11T02:43:50Z")
> [@imparker](#):
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> I am unable to change settings on the web interface for Security, watcher, or logstash.
I don't entirely understand what you are reporting.
What sort of settings are you hoping to change through the web interface?
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### Author:  [@imparker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/imparker)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2018, 4:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-doesnt-have-permissions/131345/3 "2018-05-11T16:53:27Z")
Sorry for the confusing language. The first thing I want to accomplish here is to have packetbeat be able successfully send information to logstash and for the ELK server to be able to receive it properly.
In regards to that, I have the ELK server configured with passwords correctly per the documentation, and I have packetbeat configured with the authentication for kibana & logstash, but no ssl. Do I have to enable SSL and then create the certs for that? What is the proper procedure for configuring packetbeat here.
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### Author:  [@imparker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/imparker)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2018, 8:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-doesnt-have-permissions/131345/4 "2018-05-15T20:03:20Z")
Does packetbeat require you to use TLS when using xpack? How do I configure that? I couldn't find documentation for that.
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### Author:  [@TimV](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimV)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2018, 1:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-doesnt-have-permissions/131345/5 "2018-05-16T01:41:20Z")
It sounds like you want to have the following setup:
1. packetbeat collects data
2. packetbeat sends data to logstash
3. logstash process data and sends it to elasticsearch
4. kibana connects to elasticsearch to visualise packet data.
The first step is to work out which step is broken.
This _could_ be a logstash`->`elasticsearch issue, but it could also be a problem with packetbeat`->`logstash.
What debugging have you done? What errors are you seeing?
It's hard to solve a problem that amounts to "it does work" with no specific details.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 1:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-doesnt-have-permissions/131345/6 "2018-06-13T01:49:11Z")
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