# Want to disable authentication for ES and Kibana

**URL:** <https://forum.opensearch.org/t/want-to-disable-authentication-for-es-and-kibana/6781>\
**Category:** Security\
**Created:** [August 13, 2021, 12:58pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/want-to-disable-authentication-for-es-and-kibana/6781 "2021-08-13T12:58:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 13, 2021, 2:26pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/want-to-disable-authentication-for-es-and-kibana/6781/2 "2021-08-13T14:26:44Z")

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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\_security

Then remove all security plugin related configurations and restart Elasticsearch.  
Please remember that once ES is restarted, the HTTPS communication won’t work and you need to change to HTTP in the kibana.yml config file.

Additional information can be found under these links.

> **[Standalone Elasticsearch Plugin Install](https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch-docs/docs/install/plugins/#remove-plugins)**
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> Documentation for Open Distro, the community-driven, 100% open source distribution of Elasticsearch OSS with advanced security, alerting, deep performance analysis, and more.

> **[Standalone Kibana Plugin Install](https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch-docs/docs/kibana/plugins/#remove-plugins)**
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> Documentation for Open Distro, the community-driven, 100% open source distribution of Elasticsearch OSS with advanced security, alerting, deep performance analysis, and more.

> **[Disable Security](https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch-docs/docs/security/configuration/disable/#disable-security)**
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> Documentation for Open Distro, the community-driven, 100% open source distribution of Elasticsearch OSS with advanced security, alerting, deep performance analysis, and more.

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