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Security Settings in Kibana
editSecurity Settings in Kibana
editYou do not need to configure any additional settings to use X-Pack security in Kibana. It is enabled by default.
General Security Settings
edit-
xpack.security.enabled
-
Set to
true
(default) to enable X-Pack security.
If set to
false
inkibana.yml
, the user and role management options are hidden in this Kibana instance. Ifxpack.security.enabled
is set totrue
inelasticsearch.yml
, however, you can still use the X-Pack security APIs. To disable X-Pack security entirely, see the Elasticsearch Security Settings. -
xpack.security.useDefaultEsCredentials
-
Set to
true
(default) to usekibana
andchangeme
for the Elasticsearch credentials in Kibana whenelasticsearch.username
andelasticsearch.password
are not defined inkibana.yml
.If set to
false
inkibana.yml
, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certificates are used as the fallback instead. For more information, see PKI User Authentication.