# LDAP for elastic search

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ldap-for-elastic-search/159473
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security
**Created:** [December 5, 2018, 7:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ldap-for-elastic-search/159473 "2018-12-05T07:11:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![sudha81422](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@sudha81422](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sudha81422)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2018, 7:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ldap-for-elastic-search/159473/1 "2018-12-05T07:11:54Z")

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Hi All,

we are planning to implement LDAP for kibana . We are using elastic search version 6.3. and our ELK stack is running on kubernetes. we have one elasticsearch and three data nodes and kibana pods . Can any one help me on how to implement LDAP with kibana in a particular namespace.

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### Author: ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2018, 11:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ldap-for-elastic-search/159473/2 "2018-12-05T11:19:44Z")

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You can do that with security feature which is available from a gold license (commercial feature)

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### Author: ![sudha81422](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@sudha81422](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sudha81422)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2018, 6:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ldap-for-elastic-search/159473/3 "2018-12-06T06:15:17Z")

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Thanks for your response @ Dadoonet. Can you please explore in a simple manner. I am new to this ELK stack and kubernetes.

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### Author: ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2018, 8:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ldap-for-elastic-search/159473/4 "2018-12-06T08:29:51Z")

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You can read this: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/current/ldap-realm.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/current/ldap-realm.html)

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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: [January 3, 2019, 8:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ldap-for-elastic-search/159473/5 "2019-01-03T08:39:31Z")

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