Users in Kibana and Elasticsearch

[stobbe (henk)]

Hello,

Very basic question, but the documentation is not that clear I think.
I am looking how elastic and kibana communicate user info.
When creating a user in kibana is this user automaticaly available in elastic or does kibana has its own users and execute elastic commands as a proxy?
KR Henk

[leandrojmp (Leandro Pereira)]

@stobbe

When creating a user in kibana is this user automaticaly available in elastic or does kibana has its own users and execute elastic commands as a proxy?

The users are stored in Elasticseach, when you create an user you can use it in any client, Kibana is just one of the possible clients.

[stobbe (henk)]

Thanks for your reply, may I also conclude that when you create a "elastic" user, you need to give it the right/role to logon to Kibana?

KR Henk

[leandrojmp (Leandro Pereira)]

@stobbe

Thanks for your reply, may I also conclude that when you create a "elastic" user, you need to give it the right/role to logon to Kibana?

You mean when you create an user or the specific elastic user?

The elastic user is a built-in user that has the superuser role.

But if you create another custom user, like admin, you will need to create a role for this user first with the permissions it will need.