Hey guys, I’ve setup proxy authenticaiton towards kibana and elastic using searchguard now and it works when I pass x-proxy-user in the header when the user exists in Kibana. And I was wondering: Is there any way to check if the user from x-proxy-user header exists in kibana and if not create it wi…

…if the user from x-proxy-user header exists… No. The x-proxy-user is mandatory Kibana Proxy Authentication | Security for Elasticsearch | Search Guard This sounds like a hole in security. Because anybody who looked at the code and saw those “other parameters” can create a user. What do you wan…

My use case is: I have setup a reverse proxy (apache) which is talking to an SSO application (keycloak). Once you are authenticated towards keycloak your user will be redirected in the header to kibana. It works. But the user must ofcourse exist in kibana first. My idea was: if it is possible to g…

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Searchguard Proxy Authentication Create User when it does not exist?

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Searchguard Proxy Authentication Create User when it does not exist?

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