# User and role authentication

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-and-role-authentication/80267>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 28, 2017, 9:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-and-role-authentication/80267 "2017-03-28T09:35:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Raj\_Kumar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/raj_kumar/32/25420_2.png) [@Raj\_Kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Raj_Kumar)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 9:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-and-role-authentication/80267/1 "2017-03-28T09:35:12Z")

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Hi All,

We have purchased x-pack and we were creating users and roles in the kibana interface.  
But only the super user works ,I created a new role like below

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/1/41574f70be0e7d39be79a3acfbb220827e9826dd.png)

I then logged out and i logged using the created user ,am not able to view anything , I could see icons in the left,but if I wan to see dashboard or discover , I could see anything

Please any one help me ,in figuring this out 🙂  
Thanks,  
Raj

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 12:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-and-role-authentication/80267/2 "2017-03-28T12:03:44Z")

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Probably you are missing some privileges on .kibana index?

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**Author:** ![Raj\_Kumar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/raj_kumar/32/25420_2.png) [@Raj\_Kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Raj_Kumar)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 12:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-and-role-authentication/80267/3 "2017-03-28T12:08:32Z")

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Thank you friend for the reply 🙂 I have added .kibana\* in the indices under index privileges, it works fine.But just want to know if we can give permissions on dashboards ?  
Like read only to the dashboard created.

Regards  
Raj

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 12:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-and-role-authentication/80267/4 "2017-03-28T12:28:02Z")

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I think it's not supported yet. For now may be you need to have separated Kibana instances for that but I'm not the right person to answer.

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**Author:** ![Raj\_Kumar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/raj_kumar/32/25420_2.png) [@Raj\_Kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Raj_Kumar)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 12:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-and-role-authentication/80267/5 "2017-03-28T12:29:20Z")

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Thankyou for the quick reply,Have a great day ahead 🙂

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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:** [April 25, 2017, 12:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-and-role-authentication/80267/6 "2017-04-25T12:29:32Z")

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