# Logstash password and username authentication
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-password-and-username-authentication/305786
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [May 27, 2022, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-password-and-username-authentication/305786 "2022-05-27T09:24:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Thuunder7](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Thuunder7)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2022, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-password-and-username-authentication/305786/1 "2022-05-27T09:24:53Z")
Hi guys,
I was searching in the documentation a way to authenticate a client, for example a metricbeat, into a logstash pipeline using an username and a password, but i couldn't find any option for this.
Is there any configuration to make this possible?
Regards,
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### Author:  [@RLPowellJr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RLPowellJr)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2022, 12:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-password-and-username-authentication/305786/2 "2022-05-27T12:55:00Z")
I looked in the metricbeat.reference.yml file on a recent install of Metricbeat 8.2, and the Logstash output section has a lot of entries for certificates and related parameters, but nothing for username & password. Back in the 7.x versions there was support for username & password, but maybe that's been deprecated.
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### Author:  [@Thuunder7](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Thuunder7)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2022, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-password-and-username-authentication/305786/3 "2022-05-30T14:15:12Z")
Yep, i think those options are gone from the recent versions.
Thank you @RLPowellJr
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2022, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-password-and-username-authentication/305786/4 "2022-06-27T14:15:55Z")
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