# How to disable the login page of opendistro kibana 7.10.2 version in Windows

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**Category:** Security\
**Created:** [August 19, 2021, 10:23am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/how-to-disable-the-login-page-of-opendistro-kibana-7-10-2-version-in-windows/6818 "2021-08-19T10:23:11Z")\
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Hello @sai

You could disable the security plugin by removing it from ES and Kibana.

> [@Want to disable authentication for ES and Kibana](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/want-to-disable-authentication-for-es-and-kibana/6781/2):
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> Hi @shaimoh To run the OpenDistro stack without authentication you must uninstall security plugins on both ES and Kibana. Alternatively, disable the security plug-in in ES and remove the security plug-in in Kibana. In Kibana you need to run following command : /usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana-plugin remove opendistroSecurityKibana Then remove all security plugin related configuration and restart Kibana In Elasticsearch /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-plugin remove opendistro\_secu…

Alternatively, you can also use anonymous user. That way you will keep the security plug-in and won’t have the login screen.  
Please be aware that anonymous authentication in ODFE has a flaw in Kibana and [https://kibana:5601/auth/anonymous](https://kibana:5601/auth/anonymous) URL has to be used. Issue is resolved in OpenSerach.

> [@Skip login page for anonymous Kibana access](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/skip-login-page-for-anonymous-kibana-access/5674/3):
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> @dgutchess The workaround in the ODFE is to use https://\<kibana\_server\>:5601/auth/anonymous. It has been fixed in OpenSearch. [https://github.com/opensearch-project/security-dashboards-plugin/commit/fdaff816bfeb66ccee517d5ba6e4cbe5724d828f](https://github.com/opensearch-project/security-dashboards-plugin/commit/fdaff816bfeb66ccee517d5ba6e4cbe5724d828f)

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