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How to authenticate users through elasticsearch user authentication?


Asked by Rowan Fischer on Dec 02, 2021 FAQ



If DNS is not being provided by a Windows DNS server, add a mapping for the domain in the local /etc/hosts file. For example, the following realm configuration configures Elasticsearch to connect to ldaps://example.com:636 to authenticate users through Active Directory:
Indeed,
To gain access to restricted resources, a user must prove their identity, via passwords, credentials, or some other means (typically referred to as authentication tokens). The Elastic Stack authenticates users by identifying the users behind the requests that hit the cluster and verifying that they are who they claim to be.
Subsequently, Authorization is the process of determining whether the user is allowed to execute a request, and it is done through mapping users to predefined and/or user-defined roles. There are roles that come by default with Elasticsearch, but you can also create specific roles for your use case.
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Security includes encrypted communication (TLS/SSL), authentication (native, LDAP, SSO, etc), authorization (RBAC, ABAC, etc.), IP filtering, audit logging, and much more. The focus of this blog will be on the two “auths”. Simply put, if a user or API wants to access Elasticsearch, it needs to be authenticated .
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Similar to Logstash, update the Kibana configuration to add the AD User Credentials for Elasticsearch endpoint. In the above configuration, Replace the ES Endpoint, elastic search.username and elasticsearch.password. The AD user must exist in the same AD group as specified in the role_mapping.yml. Hit Kibana Endpoint.