# Shield

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield/65543>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [November 9, 2016, 6:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield/65543 "2016-11-09T18:48:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Jose\_Campos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jose_campos/32/11259_2.png) [@Jose\_Campos](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jose_Campos)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 6:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield/65543/1 "2016-11-09T18:48:30Z")

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Hi there

I would like to know if I can create a user in shield to access to one path, with an index based in timestamp.

For example: a user to access only this document var/log/test.log to get all about the test.log.

Waiting for your comments.

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**Author:** ![skearns](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/skearns/32/125945_2.png) [@skearns](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/skearns)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 2:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield/65543/2 "2016-11-11T14:52:09Z")

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Hi Jose,

Yes, Shield provides flexible role-based access control configurations, so you could easily create a role that only grants access to a specific API. It also supports document-level security, so you could specify a query that limits which documents in a given index will be visible.

If you are running version 5.0 of the stack, you can read more about it here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/xpack-security.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/xpack-security.html)

If you are running earlier versions, you can find the docs here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/shield/current/index.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/shield/current/index.html)

Thanks,  
Steve

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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:** [December 9, 2016, 2:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield/65543/3 "2016-12-09T14:52:28Z")

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