# Kibana LDAP authentication 6.8.0 **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Tags:** elastic-stack-security\ **Created:** [June 24, 2019, 11:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-ldap-authentication-6-8-0/187113 "2019-06-24T11:59:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![akshay\_singh2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/akshay_singh2/32/47046_2.png) [@akshay\_singh2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/akshay_singh2)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2019, 11:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-ldap-authentication-6-8-0/187113/1 "2019-06-24T11:59:59Z")
Hello Team, We are running ELK stack on 6.8 without any LDAP or AD authentication. Now i want to configure LDAP authentication for Kibana. Any help on this will be very appreciated. Thanks Akshay. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfram\_Haussig](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wolfram_haussig/32/70528_2.png) [@Wolfram\_Haussig](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Wolfram_Haussig)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2019, 12:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-ldap-authentication-6-8-0/187113/2 "2019-06-24T12:50:52Z")
As you are asking here in the forum I guess you have no paid elastic license? For LDAP authentication you need at least a [gold license](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions). After you have a license it is straightforward: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/current/ldap-realm.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/current/ldap-realm.html) ---
**Author:** ![TimV](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timv/32/13162_2.png) [@TimV](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimV)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 12:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-ldap-authentication-6-8-0/187113/3 "2019-06-25T00:34:01Z")
> [@akshay\_singh2](#): > > We are running ELK stack on 6.8 with any LDAP or AD authentication I'm not quite sure how to read this sentence. Do you have LDAP authentication working already, or did you mean to type `with` **`out`** `any`? ---
**Author:** ![akshay\_singh2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/akshay_singh2/32/47046_2.png) [@akshay\_singh2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/akshay_singh2)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 5:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-ldap-authentication-6-8-0/187113/4 "2019-06-25T05:31:36Z")
Sorry my mistake, it was We are running ELK stack on 6.8 without any LDAP or AD authentication. ---
**Author:** ![akshay\_singh2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/akshay_singh2/32/47046_2.png) [@akshay\_singh2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/akshay_singh2)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 5:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-ldap-authentication-6-8-0/187113/5 "2019-06-25T05:32:18Z")
Thanks you very much Wolfram, One more doubt do have, I enabled security with http.ssl and transport .ssl on elasticsearch on test machines. Before moving to production do we need gold license for that too or does it comes with community version. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfram\_Haussig](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wolfram_haussig/32/70528_2.png) [@Wolfram\_Haussig](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Wolfram_Haussig)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 6:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-ldap-authentication-6-8-0/187113/6 "2019-06-25T06:38:51Z")
> [@akshay\_singh2](#): > > Before moving to production do we need gold license for that too or does it comes with community version. Starting with version 6.8 [Encryption is free](https://www.elastic.co/blog/security-for-elasticsearch-is-now-free) so you would not need a gold license. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2019, 6:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-ldap-authentication-6-8-0/187113/7 "2019-07-23T06:38:53Z")
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