Kibana Doesnt work if security is disabled

Security
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So i disabled opendistro security in ES:
opendistro_security.disabled: true

but now when i try to start kibana it keeps restarting and then simply fails, can anyone please explain why this is happening and whats the solution in this case, i also did the same thing in the kibana.yml file.

server.host: "serverip"

elasticsearch.host: http://localhost:9200
elasticsearch.ssl.verificationMode: none
elasticsearch.username: admin
elasticsearch.password: admin
elasticsearch.requestHeadersWhitelist: ["securitytenant","Authorization"]

opendistro_security.disabled: true

i even tried to comment out the elasticsearch part but that didnt help either. I really need help on this.
Any help or guidance is greatly appreciated.

2

Hi ghaith,

You must remove Kibana plugin if you are disabling security plugin in elasticsearch.yml.
Please follow the instructions mentioned here: https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch-docs/docs/security-configuration/disable/#remove-kibana-plugin

Please let us know if you are still facing issues.

Thanks

3

You can also simply disable the OpenDistro security plugin when launching Kibana:

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/disable-plugin.html

4

The url has changed,

example:

$ sudo bin/kibana-plugin remove opendistroSecurityKibana