# No security menus: users, RBAC

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-security-menus-users-rbac/227665>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 12, 2020, 10:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-security-menus-users-rbac/227665 "2020-04-12T10:50:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![cyberzlo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cyberzlo/32/65490_2.png) [@cyberzlo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cyberzlo)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2020, 10:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-security-menus-users-rbac/227665/1 "2020-04-12T10:50:22Z")

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Hi, I have basic license and I don't see security section in settings, why? I have default installation of ELK stack v7.6.2.

How can I enable all options to which I have access/icense, to just see them?

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**Author:** ![cyberzlo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cyberzlo/32/65490_2.png) [@cyberzlo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cyberzlo)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2020, 11:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-security-menus-users-rbac/227665/2 "2020-04-12T11:09:56Z")

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OK I found elasticsearch option for enable security `xpack.security.enabled: true` but I am goting:

`Apr 12 11:07:12 ubuntu kibana[31462]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2020-04-12T11:07:12Z","tags":["warning","plugins","licensing"],"pid":31462,"message":"License information could not be obtained from Elasticsearch due to [security_exception] missing authentication credentials for REST request [/_xpack], with { header={ WWW-Authenticate=\"Basic realm=\\\"security\\\" charset=\\\"UTF-8\\\"\" } } :: {\"path\":\"/_xpack\",\"statusCode\":401,\"response\":\"{\\\"error\\\":{\\\"root_cause\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"security_exception\\\",\\\"reason\\\":\\\"missing authentication credentials for REST request [/_xpack]\\\",\\\"header\\\":{\\\"WWW-Authenticate\\\":\\\"Basic realm=\\\\\\\"security\\\\\\\" charset=\\\\\\\"UTF-8\\\\\\\"\\\"}}],\\\"type\\\":\\\"security_exception\\\",\\\"reason\\\":\\\"missing authentication credentials for REST request [/_xpack]\\\",\\\"header\\\":{\\\"WWW-Authenticate\\\":\\\"Basic realm=\\\\\\\"security\\\\\\\" charset=\\\\\\\"UTF-8\\\\\\\"\\\"}},\\\"status\\\":401}\",\"wwwAuthenticateDirective\":\"Basic realm=\\\"security\\\" charset=\\\"UTF-8\\\"\"} error"}`

I have basic license.

My config doesn't have anything more than path to data and logs and security enabled. Is somewhere tutorial what I should configure? I just wanted have this security menu 😛 and HTTPS on Kibana soon too if will be this pissible...

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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 4:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-security-menus-users-rbac/227665/3 "2020-04-13T04:57:55Z")

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The default distribution of Elasticsearch includes all of X-Pack, but the default license is "basic".

You can activate a free trial of the commercial features via Kibana (Management -\> License)  
The basic license gives you access to many features including some security features like TLS, file based authentication, role based access. If you don't see these - may be It sounds like the Basic license may not have been applied. Can you share the output of:

`curl -XGET "localhost:9200/_xpack/license" -u elastic`

I included the `-u elastic` on the assumption that security is still enabled.

Thanks  
Rashmi

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**Author:** ![cyberzlo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cyberzlo/32/65490_2.png) [@cyberzlo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cyberzlo)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-security-menus-users-rbac/227665/4 "2020-04-13T14:02:35Z")

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I don't want trial, just use free basic license for my small private project 🙂

```auto
# curl -XGET "localhost:9200/_xpack/license" -u elastic
Enter host password for user 'elastic':

```

I dont know password for elastic user, never set such.

```auto
# curl -XGET "localhost:9200/_xpack/license"
{
  "license" : {
    "status" : "active",
    "uid" : "[…]",
    "type" : "basic",
    "issue_date" : "2020-04-07T[…]Z",
    "issue_date_in_millis" : […],
    "max_nodes" : 1000,
    "issued_to" : "elasticsearch",
    "issuer" : "elasticsearch",
    "start_date_in_millis" : -1
  }
}

```

I also before had another installation and there was no security menu too. In both cases I used Ubuntu and .deb packages from official repository.

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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:** [May 11, 2020, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-security-menus-users-rbac/227665/5 "2020-05-11T14:02:36Z")

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