# Kibana Request me login with Shield in ElasticSearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-request-me-login-with-shield-in-elasticsearch/60695>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [September 16, 2016, 11:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-request-me-login-with-shield-in-elasticsearch/60695 "2016-09-16T11:00:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Francisco\_Martinez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dec6dc/32.png) [@Francisco\_Martinez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Francisco_Martinez)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 11:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-request-me-login-with-shield-in-elasticsearch/60695/1 "2016-09-16T11:00:32Z")

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I recently installed Shield in Elasticsearch and create a user with the role kibana4\_server. Kibana subsequently configured with the same username and password.

```
elasticsearch.username: "mi-usuario-kibana"
elasticsearch.password: "mipassword"

```

My problem occurs when I enter Kibana, because it asks me username and password. (Attach Screenshot).

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/b/bee09e80679c26f395e312b169a84398ae9d4217.PNG)

how can i fix it?

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**Author:** ![Joe\_Fleming](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joe_fleming/32/3561_2.png) [@Joe\_Fleming](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joe_Fleming)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 5:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-request-me-login-with-shield-in-elasticsearch/60695/2 "2016-09-16T17:15:59Z")

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When Shield is installed in Elasticsearch, unauthenticated requests to ES are blocked. The server user is only used to modify the `.kibana` index, it has nothing to do with users of Kibana. You'll need to create a user in Shield and give it access to both Kibana as well as any indices you want to allow that user to access.

See [the Shield docs](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/shield/current/kibana.html) for more information.

I'd also recommend installing the Shield UI component in Kibana, as it'll give you a cleaner login experience, and is a requirement for using Reporting if you have Shield in Elasticsearch.

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**Author:** ![Francisco\_Martinez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dec6dc/32.png) [@Francisco\_Martinez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Francisco_Martinez)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 6:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-request-me-login-with-shield-in-elasticsearch/60695/3 "2016-09-19T06:52:02Z")

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finally i solved it with this config:

`elasticsearch.url: "http://mi-usuario-kibana:mipassword@localhost:9200"`

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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, 1:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-request-me-login-with-shield-in-elasticsearch/60695/4 "2017-07-06T13:38:50Z")

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