# Kibana with PKI auth **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [August 26, 2016, 1:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-with-pki-auth/59043 "2016-08-26T13:47:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kqpr0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@kqpr0](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kqpr0)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 1:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-with-pki-auth/59043/1 "2016-08-26T13:47:44Z")
There is a comment in the Kibana.yml file that says "Your Kibana users still need to authenticate with Elasticsearch, which is proxied through the Kibana server." I have elasticsearch setup to handle PKI auth, and it works well when connecting from a browser directly into elasticsearch's 9200 port. But when I try to authenticate through Kibana's 5601 port, it will not accept PKI auth, but insists on user/password. Is there any way to require PKI user authentication for Kibana users without using a proxy? ---
**Author:** ![tylersmalley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tylersmalley/32/8833_2.png) [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2016, 1:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-with-pki-auth/59043/2 "2016-08-27T01:11:47Z")
One of the main issues preventing Kibana from supporting PKI was passing through the associated headers. This was resolved in [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/6221](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/6221) There is a current issue to support PKI: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/7341](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/7341) Do you have a support contract with Elastic? If so, your rep can provide assistance as well. ---
**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, 1:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-with-pki-auth/59043/3 "2017-07-06T13:40:09Z")