# Kibana Login with Encrypt Username

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-login-with-encrypt-username/371756>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 10, 2024, 12:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-login-with-encrypt-username/371756 "2024-12-10T12:35:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![amjad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/amjad/32/140039_2.png) [@amjad](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/amjad)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 12:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-login-with-encrypt-username/371756/1 "2024-12-10T12:35:42Z")

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Hi All,

Hope Everyone doing great.  
Please help me in what are the changes need to be done in both elastic.yml and kibana.yml for the logging of Kibana dashboards with the encrypt username in elastic version 7.16 having basic license.

How to build for the token-based login for the same version 7.16 of basic license.

Thanks in Advance

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**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 3:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-login-with-encrypt-username/371756/2 "2024-12-10T15:12:29Z")

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Here is the documentation

> **[Secure the Elastic Stack | Elasticsearch Guide \[7.16\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.16/secure-cluster.html)**

I also wrote this How To a while back.

> **[howtos/basic-security-elasticsearch-pkg at master · bvader/howtos](https://github.com/bvader/howtos/tree/master/basic-security-elasticsearch-pkg)**
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> How To Do Stuff. Contribute to bvader/howtos development by creating an account on GitHub.

By the way, if you install 8.X This is all set up for you...