# Kibana password encapsulation

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-password-encapsulation/63344>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 19, 2016, 4:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-password-encapsulation/63344 "2016-10-19T04:45:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![piyush](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecb155/32.png) [@piyush](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/piyush)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 4:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-password-encapsulation/63344/1 "2016-10-19T04:45:29Z")

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Hi Team,  
Is there a way we can use environment variables for username/password in logstash.conf and kibana.yml? please let me know how.

I tried profile values but it's not working (kibana.yml):

1:  
elasticsearch.username: $kibanauser  
elasticsearch.password: $kibanapwd

2:  
elasticsearch.username: "$kibanauser"  
elasticsearch.password: "$kibanapwd"

For plain text it's working fine.

Thanks & Regards,

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**Author:** ![piyush](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecb155/32.png) [@piyush](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/piyush)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-password-encapsulation/63344/2 "2016-10-19T20:29:24Z")

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also tried:

elasticsearch.username: ${kibanauser}  
elasticsearch.password: ${kibanapwd}

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 8:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-password-encapsulation/63344/4 "2016-10-19T20:44:59Z")

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 9:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-password-encapsulation/63344/5 "2016-10-19T21:25:47Z")

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-password-encapsulation/63344/6 "2017-07-06T13:36:12Z")

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