# Making Dashboard read only **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [January 6, 2020, 8:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/making-dashboard-read-only/213853 "2020-01-06T08:57:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Praveen\_Yallala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bb73d2/32.png) [@Praveen\_Yallala](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Praveen_Yallala)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 8:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/making-dashboard-read-only/213853/1 "2020-01-06T08:57:38Z")
Hi, I have created a kibana Dashboard which our team will be using. As of now, everyone is able to view and edit the dashboards. Only I should be able to edit and rest of the team members should have read only access. I have installed Kibana and Elasticsearch both on RHEL 7. Please help me in creating a read only mode for Dashboards. Thank you in advance! Regards, Praveen ---
**Author:** ![wylie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wylie/32/81794_2.png) [@wylie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wylie)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 11:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/making-dashboard-read-only/213853/2 "2020-01-06T23:28:52Z")
You can change the roles of the user accounts that your team will be using to read-only permissions for dashboards. [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/kibana-role-management.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/kibana-role-management.html) ---
**Author:** ![Praveen\_Yallala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bb73d2/32.png) [@Praveen\_Yallala](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Praveen_Yallala)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 5:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/making-dashboard-read-only/213853/3 "2020-01-07T05:07:47Z")
Hi Wylie, For me it is not showing security option in the management. Attached is the screenshot for your reference. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/b/5/b5750784c8b978d6c9e1ffe0e44c7e4d7e372592.png) Please help me with the steps to get the security option in Kibana. Thanks in advance! Regards, Praveeen ---
**Author:** ![wylie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wylie/32/81794_2.png) [@wylie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wylie)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 5:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/making-dashboard-read-only/213853/4 "2020-01-07T17:17:10Z")
Security is at the bottom of the management section. It requires the free basic license. ---
**Author:** ![elasticforme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f05b48/32.png) [@elasticforme](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticforme)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 6:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/making-dashboard-read-only/213853/5 "2020-01-07T18:12:36Z")
as wylie said you have to enable basic security here are some steps [https://www.elastic.co/blog/getting-started-with-elasticsearch-security](https://www.elastic.co/blog/getting-started-with-elasticsearch-security) here are steps shutdown everything (logstash/kibane/elasticsearch) create certificate /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-certutil cert -out /etc/elasticsearch/config/elastic-certificates.p12 -pass "" chown -R elasticsearch:elasticsearch /etc/elasticsearch/config copy this folder config on all your elastic cluster node add these line to your /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml file. on all nodes xpack.security.enabled: true xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled: true xpack.security.transport.ssl.verification\_mode: certificate xpack.security.transport.ssl.keystore.path: /etc/elasticsearch/config/elastic-certificates.p12 xpack.security.transport.ssl.truststore.path: /etc/elasticsearch/config/elastic-certificates.p12 start elasticsearch and setup password setup the password /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-setup-passwords interactive may be restart your elasticsearch on all node again just to be safe now on kibana add following to kibana.yml elasticsearch.username: "kibana" elasticsearch.password: "kibana" (if password is different use that) xpack.security.enabled: true start kibana - use elastic/password(what ever you have set earlier) to login and you will have this options available. now for logstash config file you have to use following in output section. user =\> elastic password =\> elastic ---
**Author:** ![Praveen\_Yallala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bb73d2/32.png) [@Praveen\_Yallala](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Praveen_Yallala)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 12:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/making-dashboard-read-only/213853/6 "2020-01-08T12:28:34Z")
Thank you Sachin. Issue is resolved. I have just added below lines to elasticsearch.yml file which resolved the issue. xpack.security.enabled: true xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled: true xpack.security.transport.ssl.verification\_mode: certificate ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2020, 12:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/making-dashboard-read-only/213853/7 "2020-02-05T12:42:02Z")
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