# Kibana and client certificate authentication

**URL:** <https://forum.opensearch.org/t/kibana-and-client-certificate-authentication/1947>\
**Category:** Security\
**Created:** [November 30, 2019, 1:38pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/kibana-and-client-certificate-authentication/1947 "2019-11-30T13:38:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![alexz00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@alexz00](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/alexz00)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2019, 1:38pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/kibana-and-client-certificate-authentication/1947/1 "2019-11-30T13:38:51Z")

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Hi,  
I’d like to set up client certificate authentication for Kibana. I set it up for Elasticsearch and it works fine, but Kibana still requests username and password.

Can you please suggest how to work this out?

Thanks a lot.

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**Author:** ![CodeGlitcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f19dbf/32.png) [@CodeGlitcher](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/CodeGlitcher)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 11:49am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/kibana-and-client-certificate-authentication/1947/2 "2020-01-30T11:49:24Z")

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Hello

Did you find a solution?  
I am have the same problem.

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**Author:** ![alexz00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@alexz00](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/alexz00)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 2:34pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/kibana-and-client-certificate-authentication/1947/3 "2020-02-03T14:34:36Z")

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Hi,  
from Kibana documentation actually I understood that this is currently not possible (neither with XPack). Client certificate auth seems supported only in Elasicsearch.