Shield 2.3.3 & Kibana

[LeeDr (Lee Drengenberg)]

Hi Vivien,

--> authenticate user without the use of SSL

you cannot use Shield in that version without SSL. Here's another post on it;

Problem shield - kibana

I've not configured to use ssl. If I insert shield.encryptionKey kibana ask me to insert info for ssl authentication, but I've not said kibana to use ssl and neither to elasticsearch. How can I check really that kibana doesn't use ssl? because seems that is use it...I'm just a bit confused

In the 5.0 stack SSL is not required.

--> allow or not to use the discover part of kibana

There is not any supported way to disable Discover. I think some people have put a proxy in front of Kibana to block requests to /discover, but I don't know any details on that approach.

--> allow or not to use the view of some visualization

I think you could use document level security to create a role which does not have access to some visualizations. I'll try to do this and update with the results.

--> Use the plugin shield for kibana (actually i can't when i launch kibana an error occur on the existence of ssl option)

Yes, you must use SSL with the Kibana Shield plugin in Kibana 4.x.

Regards,
Lee