# Security for multiple users accessing the same index
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/security-for-multiple-users-accessing-the-same-index/317736
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security
**Created:** [October 29, 2022, 10:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/security-for-multiple-users-accessing-the-same-index/317736 "2022-10-29T22:21:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@HockeyFan0000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/HockeyFan0000)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2022, 10:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/security-for-multiple-users-accessing-the-same-index/317736/1 "2022-10-29T22:21:59Z")
We have multiple users creating indexes for very few documents. One index has one document they update daily and another has 2-3 documents indexed every two weeks. We would like to combine all these minimal-use cases into one index. These people are on the same large team so they have access to the same indexes. I don't think field-level security would work for us because we would have to specify the fields and we don't know what they'll use. Is there a way we can have the sub-teams access the same index but only have access to the fields they create?
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### Author:  [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2022, 11:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/security-for-multiple-users-accessing-the-same-index/317736/2 "2022-10-29T23:03:01Z")
Seems Like perhaps you are describing [Document Level Security.](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.4/document-level-security.html)
If you have a way to define who can access / read / write documents by type, term etc you could use that, So users with "Role A" would only see the documents they have access to by "type" (not `_type` which is always `_doc`) I mean by some pre-defined field that maps to "Role A" etc.
But perhaps I don't understand
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### Author:  [@HockeyFan0000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/HockeyFan0000)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2022, 11:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/security-for-multiple-users-accessing-the-same-index/317736/3 "2022-10-29T23:12:25Z")
There's only one problem with that...now I feel like an idiot for not thinking of it. 🙂
That sounds like a great idea. I think that will work for us. Thank you so much.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2022, 11:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/security-for-multiple-users-accessing-the-same-index/317736/4 "2022-11-26T23:12:42Z")
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