# Using https to login to Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-https-to-login-to-kibana/227328>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [April 9, 2020, 1:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-https-to-login-to-kibana/227328 "2020-04-09T13:19:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-https-to-login-to-kibana/227328/6 "2020-04-09T15:36:19Z")

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> [@ethical20](#):
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> I've checked the path of this /etc/kibana/kibana-server.p12 and I can see it is there.

It looks like kibana can't read that file though. What are the permissions for that file and the directory, can you share the output of the command

```auto
ls -la /etc/kibana/kibana-server.p12

```

and

```auto
ls -la /etc/kibana

```

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