# Kibana SSO authentication configuration requirement

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-sso-authentication-configuration-requirement/347988
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security
**Created:** [November 26, 2023, 10:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-sso-authentication-configuration-requirement/347988 "2023-11-26T10:34:25Z")
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### Author: ![anupvtr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/anupvtr/32/128607_2.png) [@anupvtr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anupvtr)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2023, 10:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-sso-authentication-configuration-requirement/347988/1 "2023-11-26T10:34:25Z")

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Hello All,

Thanks, in advance.

We have an AWS hosted Elasticsearch and Kibana (8.10 version). Logstash is configured on AWS RHEL7 server.  
For Kibana I need to enable the AD based SSO authentication. Could anyone please help me on what are the configuration i need to perform for this.

Thanks & Regards,  
Nikhil GS

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### Author: ![sholzhauer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sholzhauer/32/110282_2.png) [@sholzhauer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sholzhauer)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2023, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-sso-authentication-configuration-requirement/347988/2 "2023-11-26T14:03:59Z")

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Hi,

You appear to be looking for the `xpack.security.authc.` properties. These need to be defined in both Elasticsearch and Kibana.

In Elasticsearch you define the connection to the SSO provider, within kibana you then use that provider.

> **[Security settings in Kibana | Kibana Guide \[8.11\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/security-settings-kb.html#security-settings-kb)**

> **[Security settings in Elasticsearch | Elasticsearch Guide \[8.11\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/security-settings.html#realm-settings)**

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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: [December 24, 2023, 2:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-sso-authentication-configuration-requirement/347988/3 "2023-12-24T14:04:34Z")

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