Turn on Anonymous access

Elastic Security SIEM
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I currently have version 8.9.1 of Kibana (basic license) installed on my machine. I created an anonymous user with full access to testing

I've added the following to Elasticsearch.yml

xpack.security.authc:
  anonymous:
    username: anonymous_user 
    roles: admin
    authz_exception: true

And I added the following to kibana.yml

xpack.security.authc.providers:
  basic.basic1:
    order: 0
  anonymous.anonymous1:
    order: 1
    credentials:
      username: "anonymous_service_account"
      password: "anonymous_service_account_password"

When I click on the anonymous login option on the login screen, I get the following error

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Error: [security_exception
	Root causes:
		security_exception: unable to authenticate user [anonymous_user1] for REST request [/_security/_authenticate]]: unable to authenticate user [anonymous_user1] for REST request [/_security/_authenticate]
    at login_form_LoginForm.loginWithSelector (http://localhost:5601/64802/bundles/plugin/security/1.0.0/security.chunk.7.js:3:14315)
2

Hi @gabrielpicagevicz,

Welcome to the community! Can you confirm the user and password is setup in Kibana and that those credentials match those in your kibana.yml?

3

Hello Carly Richmond,

Thank you for the response. The previous issue has been completely resolved by creating a user in Kibana. However, I have a new question.

I have created a dashboard with a heat map and populated it with some data. I need to implement this dashboard in an external application through an iframe (I was able to create an iframe by sharing the dashboard). However, when I add the iframe to the HTML, it keeps loading infinitely.

HTML embedding the dashboard:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title> Kibana</title>
</head>
<body>
    <iframe src="http://localhost:5601/app/dashboards?auth_provider_hint=anonymous1#/view/28f244b0-5a55-11ee-9d0f-2df0c1692a5f?_g=()&_a=(panels:!((embeddableConfig:(enhancements:(),hiddenLayers:!(),isLayerTOCOpen:!t,mapBuffer:(maxLat:-23.56399,maxLon:-46.4502,minLat:-23.68477,minLon:-46.62598),mapCenter:(lat:-23.62215,lon:-46.54096,zoom:12.43),openTOCDetails:!('4c320114-8722-40fe-accb-2f2e2d21601f')),gridData:(h:20,i:f3ac19b8-0dba-4aaa-889f-8945c476e13c,w:29,x:0,y:0),id:'9781f710-5a4e-11ee-9d0f-2df0c1692a5f',panelIndex:f3ac19b8-0dba-4aaa-889f-8945c476e13c,type:map,version:'8.9.1'))" width="800" height="600"></iframe>
</body>
</html>

When I run it, the following screen remains stuck infinitely:

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In my Kibana.bat console, the same message keeps incrementing:

[2023-09-30T19:38:16.534-03:00][INFO ][plugins.security.routes] Logging in with provider "anonymous1" (anonymous)

4

Can you try to add the xpack.security.sameSiteCookies and xpack.security.secureCookies options as per this thread? Let us know if this resolves your loop issue.

5

Hi, I added both lines as requested; however, the issue persisted...

Out of curiosity, I changed my address from 127.0.0.1:5500/index.html to localhost:5500/index.html, and guess what? The problem was resolved...

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I appreciate your help!!!

I am working on my college thesis, and your support in these situations has been extremely valuable!

Thank you, Carly

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