# User authentication in kibana **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [August 25, 2015, 12:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-authentication-in-kibana/28008 "2015-08-25T12:31:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bmbost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/48db29/32.png) [@bmbost](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bmbost)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 12:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-authentication-in-kibana/28008/1 "2015-08-25T12:31:27Z")
I know there is the shield product which provides high levels of security for the ELK suite. I do not need that level of security for the environment. Are there any other options which I could implement to provide some basic layer have a user login into kibana. Any guidance which can be given will be greatly appreciated. THANKS!!! ---
**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 12:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-authentication-in-kibana/28008/2 "2015-08-25T12:40:31Z")
Assuming you can lock down Elasticsearch access to certain hosts or network interfaces and that we're talking about Kibana 4 it's easy to put it behind a reverse proxy that authenticates all requests. Kibana 3 takes some more work but the reverse proxy approach works there too. ---
**Author:** ![bmbost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/48db29/32.png) [@bmbost](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bmbost)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 12:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-authentication-in-kibana/28008/3 "2015-08-25T12:45:39Z")
Thanks.... Yes it would be kibana 4. Any recommendations on how to se up a reverse proxy? ---
**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 12:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-authentication-in-kibana/28008/4 "2015-08-25T12:52:06Z")
I don't have any particular recommendations, no. Any reverse proxy capable web server that also supports the authentication mechanism you want to use should do just fine. We use Apache and LDAP-backed basic authentication. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-authentication-in-kibana/28008/5 "2017-07-06T14:14:14Z")