# Kibana LDAP authentication Realm problem
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-ldap-authentication-realm-problem/95350
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [August 1, 2017, 1:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-ldap-authentication-realm-problem/95350 "2017-08-01T13:52:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@ashok\_n](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ashok_n)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2017, 1:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-ldap-authentication-realm-problem/95350/1 "2017-08-01T13:52:17Z")
Hi,
I would like to integrate Kibana with LDAP authentication, I followed the xpack realm configuration from official documentation but its throwing following error. Can some one help me by sharing kibana.yml with working LDAP Realm configuration.
> FATAL { ValidationError: child "xpack" fails because [child "security" fails because ["authc" is not allowed]]
Complete log
> FATAL { ValidationError: child "xpack" fails because [child "security" fails because ["authc" is not allowed]]
> at Object.exports.process (/usr/share/kibana/node\_modules/joi/lib/errors.js:181:19)
> at \_validateWithOptions (/usr/share/kibana/node\_modules/joi/lib/any.js:651:31)
> at root.validate (/usr/share/kibana/node\_modules/joi/lib/index.js:121:23)
> at Config.\_commit (/usr/share/kibana/src/server/config/config.js:114:35)
> at Config.set (/usr/share/kibana/src/server/config/config.js:84:10)
> at Config.extendSchema (/usr/share/kibana/src/server/config/config.js:57:10)
> at /usr/share/kibana/src/server/plugins/plugin\_collection.js:19:12
> at next (native)
> at step (/usr/share/kibana/src/server/plugins/plugin\_collection.js:49:191)
> at /usr/share/kibana/src/server/plugins/plugin\_collection.js:49:361
> isJoi: true,
> name: 'ValidationError',
> details:
> [ { message: '"authc" is not allowed',
> path: 'xpack.security.authc',
> type: 'object.allowUnknown',
> context: [Object] } ],
> \_object:
> { pkg:
> { version: '5.5.0',
> branch: '5.x',
> buildNum: 15382,
> buildSha: 'e1950ab7d0686b3a01caa0899faf4bf5a5e4904c' },
> dev: { basePathProxyTarget: 5603 },
> pid: { exclusive: false },
> cpu: { cgroup: [Object] },
> cpuacct: { cgroup: [Object] },
> server:
> { name: 'kibana',
> host: '0',
> port: 5601,
> maxPayloadBytes: 1048576,
> autoListen: true,
> defaultRoute: '/app/kibana',
> basePath: '',
> ssl: [Object],
> cors: false,
> xsrf: [Object] },
> logging:
> { silent: false,
> quiet: false,
> verbose: false,
> events: {},
> dest: 'stdout',
> filter: {},
> json: true },
> ops: { interval: 5000 },
> plugins: { scanDirs: [Object], paths: , initialize: true },
> path: { data: '/usr/share/kibana/data' },
> optimize:
> { enabled: true,
> bundleFilter: '!tests',
> bundleDir: '/usr/share/kibana/optimize/bundles',
> viewCaching: true,
> lazy: false,
> lazyPort: 5602,
> lazyHost: 'localhost',
> lazyPrebuild: false,
> lazyProxyTimeout: 300000,
> useBundleCache: true,
> profile: false },
> status: { allowAnonymous: false, v6ApiFormat: false },
> map: { manifestServiceUrl: '[https://catalogue.maps.elastic.co/v1/manifest](https://catalogue.maps.elastic.co/v1/manifest)' },
> tilemap: { options: [Object] },
> regionmap: {},
> uiSettings: { enabled: true },
> i18n: { defaultLocale: 'en' },
> xpack:
> { xpack\_main: [Object],
> graph: [Object],
> monitoring: [Object],
> reporting: [Object],
> security: [Object] } },
> annotate: [Function] }
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### Author:  [@Brandon\_Kobel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brandon_Kobel)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2017, 6:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-ldap-authentication-realm-problem/95350/2 "2017-08-01T18:27:49Z")
@ashok_n the `xpack.security.authc` settings should be specified in your `elasticsearch.yml` instead of your `kibana.yml`.
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### Author:  [@ashok\_n](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ashok_n)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2017, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-ldap-authentication-realm-problem/95350/3 "2017-08-02T11:23:07Z")
@Brandon_Kobel Thank you very much, it worked.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-ldap-authentication-realm-problem/95350/4 "2017-08-30T11:23:33Z")
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