# No Role/User Admin - no reporting

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-role-user-admin-no-reporting/376514>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 28, 2025, 7:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-role-user-admin-no-reporting/376514 "2025-03-28T07:29:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Michael\_Jervis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/michael_jervis/32/142303_2.png) [@Michael\_Jervis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Michael_Jervis)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 7:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-role-user-admin-no-reporting/376514/1 "2025-03-28T07:29:26Z")

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Hi,

We set up ELK 7.17 some time ago following a digital ocean guide here:

> **[How To Install Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (Elastic Stack) on Ubuntu...](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana-elastic-stack-on-ubuntu-20-04#step-2-installing-and-configuring-the-kibana-dashboard)**
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> In this tutorial, we will go over the installation of the Elastic Stack on an Ubuntu 20.04 server. You will learn how to install all of the components of the…

The login appears to just be set up via the NGINX basic auth.

When I go into Stack Management there is no Roles or Users section, we don't have the reporting section.

My theories are:

1. I need to install or enable something that guide didn't cover, but I can't find anything in the docs to suggest that's the case
2. I haven't set up auth right so the basic auth user isn't getting the admin rights fully (but it can manage lots of scary things) so I've missed a set up step I now can't find in the docs

Can anyone point me at where I should start looking?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 9:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-role-user-admin-no-reporting/376514/2 "2025-03-28T09:16:57Z")

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That guide seem to not cover setting up security properly in Elasticsearch and instead implements only authentication via a proxy. If you had done this no proxy would be required at all. I would recommend following [the offical documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/elasticsearch-intro.html) rather than any third-party guide that may or may not be correct, complete and up-to-date.