# Restrict some users to search for allowed files in kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restrict-some-users-to-search-for-allowed-files-in-kibana/52962>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 16, 2016, 8:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restrict-some-users-to-search-for-allowed-files-in-kibana/52962 "2016-06-16T08:03:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ajoealex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ajoealex](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ajoealex)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 8:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restrict-some-users-to-search-for-allowed-files-in-kibana/52962/1 "2016-06-16T08:03:35Z")

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I am indexing lot of documents from network share and sharepoint server. Each document has a permission level ie, some users have permission to view some files only. So that files need not be searchable for that users. How we can give this security filter in kibana?

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**Author:** ![ajoealex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ajoealex](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ajoealex)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 11:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restrict-some-users-to-search-for-allowed-files-in-kibana/52962/2 "2016-06-16T11:14:42Z")

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@jaymode Could you please give me a solution for the above mentioned scenario?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2016, 1:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restrict-some-users-to-search-for-allowed-files-in-kibana/52962/3 "2016-06-18T01:27:21Z")

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You can do this with document level security in Shield - [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/shield/current/setting-up-field-and-document-level-security.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/shield/current/setting-up-field-and-document-level-security.html)

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restrict-some-users-to-search-for-allowed-files-in-kibana/52962/4 "2017-07-06T13:50:03Z")

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