# Search Guard and OpenID

**URL:** <https://forum.search-guard.com/t/search-guard-and-openid/138>\
**Category:** Search Guard\
**Created:** [March 29, 2016, 7:31am UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/search-guard-and-openid/138 "2016-03-29T07:31:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![1112](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/ba8739/32.png) [@1112](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/1112)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 7:31am UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/search-guard-and-openid/138/1 "2016-03-29T07:31:03Z")

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Hello, all:  
Recently I’m going to use OpenID to provide authentication for Elasticsearch and Kibana. However, I have no idea to do it. Anyone has done it? Could anyone tell me how to import OpenID authentication into search guard or else software for elasticsearch and kibana? Many thanks!