# Seriously, is run\_as broken when combined with the AD realm?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/seriously-is-run-as-broken-when-combined-with-the-ad-realm/87560>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 30, 2017, 12:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/seriously-is-run-as-broken-when-combined-with-the-ad-realm/87560 "2017-05-30T12:07:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Buzzaes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Buzzaes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Buzzaes)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 12:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/seriously-is-run-as-broken-when-combined-with-the-ad-realm/87560/1 "2017-05-30T12:07:10Z")

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The docs around this topic aren't the greatest and I'm not the only one on this forum having this issue but the question still remains unanswered.

It's a little frustrating considering how expensive x-pack is and this functionality is almost elementary in other applications.

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**Author:** ![joshbressers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joshbressers/32/42332_2.png) [@joshbressers](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/joshbressers)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 6:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/seriously-is-run-as-broken-when-combined-with-the-ad-realm/87560/2 "2017-05-30T18:30:41Z")

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Unfortunately this isn't possible today with x-pack. We have a feature request to add an AD bind user to the product which will make this use case possible. Our LDAP authentication is able to use a bind user which will make this use case possible. The LDAP documentation can be found here:  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/ldap-realm.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/ldap-realm.html)

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Buzzaes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Buzzaes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Buzzaes)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 10:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/seriously-is-run-as-broken-when-combined-with-the-ad-realm/87560/3 "2017-05-31T10:43:42Z")

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Thanks for the reply.

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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:** [June 28, 2017, 10:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/seriously-is-run-as-broken-when-combined-with-the-ad-realm/87560/4 "2017-06-28T10:44:48Z")

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