Hey, I am very new to Search Guard and I was wondering how to install the community version. I installed the demo version and it worked perfectly. However it comes with a 60 day trial. It says in the official documentation to install the Enterprise version first and then disable the Enterprise modul…

No, you do not need to contact us at all for the Community edition. We only provide one download, with all Community and Enterprise features enabled, there is no separate Community download. You can find all version here: SG7 for ES7: [image] Latest Releases A list of the current Searc…

Thank you for clarifying this for me Jochen. I disabled the enterprise modules connected to my original install. I’d imagine any config changes now must be done via the config files i.e. add user, permissions to create dashboards etc?

Yes, this is correct. You need to change the config files, and then upload the changes via the sgadmin tool. Search Guard keeps all configuration settings in an Elasticsearch index. This enables configuration hot-reloading, so you can make changes without the need to restart your cluster and withou…

Yes I understand. I executed the sgadmin command to see if the works as expected and it does thankfully. The next challenge will be to configure the .yml files. is there any guides on how to add internal users, map roles etc.

We are in the process of publishing a “First Steps” section on the docs, but this will take another couple of days. There is a comprehensive, but also rather long article out there written by a SG user: [image] ElasticSearch Security - Installing And Configuring Search-Guard How-To -... …

Hey Jochen, I am able to create users, map to roles and have dashboards only in place for kibana users. Is there any way to set specific dashboards to specific users? This is the last piece of functionality I need!! can you point me in the right direction?

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jkressin May 10, 2019, 1:49pm 10

Answered here: Specific Dashboards for specific users - #5 by Richie

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