# Passing the security credentials in REST Search API
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/passing-the-security-credentials-in-rest-search-api/214944
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 14, 2020, 8:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/passing-the-security-credentials-in-rest-search-api/214944 "2020-01-14T08:14:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@mruthyu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mruthyu)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2020, 8:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/passing-the-security-credentials-in-rest-search-api/214944/1 "2020-01-14T08:14:40Z")
I am looking for the way to transfer the credential details for the REST Search API request.
Checked the API specification and haven't found any fields.
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Would like to know how the authentication and authorization is being handled when we directly interact with Elasticsearch through API.
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2020, 8:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/passing-the-security-credentials-in-rest-search-api/214944/2 "2020-01-14T08:38:01Z")
Hey,
you can use [basic authentication](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.5/setting-up-authentication.html) supplying a username and a password in the `Authorization` header.
--Alex
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### Author:  [@mruthyu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mruthyu)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2020, 6:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/passing-the-security-credentials-in-rest-search-api/214944/3 "2020-01-16T06:29:33Z")
Nice. Thanks.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2020, 6:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/passing-the-security-credentials-in-rest-search-api/214944/4 "2020-02-13T06:29:35Z")
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