# Login to kibana via API
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/login-to-kibana-via-api/120101
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [February 16, 2018, 6:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/login-to-kibana-via-api/120101 "2018-02-16T06:15:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@RamyaGowda](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RamyaGowda)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2018, 6:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/login-to-kibana-via-api/120101/1 "2018-02-16T06:15:00Z")
Hi
I have embedded kibana dashboards in my website by using iframe, now the issue is user has to login 2 times to see his/her data in kibana . one is to website and other is to kibana , i dont want to disable security from kibana because i have to show user-specific data , now my requirement is when user comes to my website and login , automatically he has to login to kibana also from backend side by using any API call's.
i have tried bellow one but no luck
> GET /api/security/v1/login
> {
> "username" : "jon",
> "password" : "\*\*\*\*\*"
> }
Please help me
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### Author:  [@lukas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2018, 6:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/login-to-kibana-via-api/120101/2 "2018-02-16T18:30:02Z")
Looks like this has been discussed in detail here: [Auto-authenticate Kibana 5.3 dashboard embedded in iframe](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auto-authenticate-kibana-5-3-dashboard-embedded-in-iframe/85059/6)
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### Author:  [@RamyaGowda](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RamyaGowda)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2018, 1:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/login-to-kibana-via-api/120101/3 "2018-02-17T01:57:06Z")
Hi @lukas
Thanks for your reply....
I don't think that I can run kibana using bin/kibana , because I have configured kibana in docker , and it is running as container
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### Author:  [@jarpy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jarpy)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2018, 1:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/login-to-kibana-via-api/120101/4 "2018-03-04T01:45:56Z")
That's a long thread above, but were you considering configuring `server.cors`?
If you need to configure Kibana inside the container, I recommend the _bind-mounted configuration_ approach, as documented here:
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/\_configuring\_kibana\_on\_docker.html#docker-bind-mount-config](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/_configuring_kibana_on_docker.html#docker-bind-mount-config)
The default configuration in our image is this:
>
so you may want to copy that file and then modify it to suit you needs, before bind-mounting it into your container.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2018, 1:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/login-to-kibana-via-api/120101/5 "2018-04-01T01:46:00Z")
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