# No permission to manage

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-permission-to-manage/111949
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 15, 2017, 10:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-permission-to-manage/111949 "2017-12-15T10:14:22Z")
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### Author: ![Nima\_van\_Persien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f0a364/32.png) [@Nima\_van\_Persien](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nima_van_Persien)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2017, 10:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-permission-to-manage/111949/1 "2017-12-15T10:14:22Z")

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Hi community,  
after I installed X-Pack on my ELK-Stack, I see this message when I click in Management Tab.  
"You do not have permission to manage .... Please contact your administrator."

can somebody help me to solve this?

Thanks

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### Author: ![ikakavas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ikakavas/32/34430_2.png) [@ikakavas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ikakavas)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2017, 10:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-permission-to-manage/111949/2 "2017-12-22T10:00:41Z")

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Hi Nima,  
Which user do you authenticate to Kibana with? What roles do they have ? You can use

`GET /_xpack/security/user/<username>` in your Kibana Dev Tools tab

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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 19, 2018, 10:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-permission-to-manage/111949/3 "2018-01-19T10:00:44Z")

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