# What is the use of searchguard admin

**URL:** <https://forum.search-guard.com/t/what-is-the-use-of-searchguard-admin/1878>\
**Category:** Search Guard\
**Created:** [June 30, 2020, 10:16am UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/what-is-the-use-of-searchguard-admin/1878 "2020-06-30T10:16:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![tbhaxor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed655f/32.png) [@tbhaxor](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/tbhaxor)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 10:16am UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/what-is-the-use-of-searchguard-admin/1878/1 "2020-06-30T10:16:18Z")

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Hi I am new to search guard. What is the use of search guard admin. and is it kibana plugin or elasticsearch.

PS: i want to install community version for now

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**Author:** ![srgbnd](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.search-guard.com/srgbnd/32/506_2.png) [@srgbnd](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/srgbnd)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 10:36am UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/what-is-the-use-of-searchguard-admin/1878/2 "2020-06-30T10:36:24Z")

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You can operate as the admin user both in Search Guard Elasticsearch plugin and Search Guard Kibana plugin. The admin user has all the rights to perform all sorts of administration tasks in the system.

I suggest you to start with the first steps tutorial:

> **[Adding users](https://docs.search-guard.com/latest/first-steps-user-configuration)**
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> How to add new Search Guard users by using sgctl and the Search Guard configuration.

> **[Migrating configuration files](https://docs.search-guard.com/latest/sgadmin)**
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> You can use sgadmin to migrate Search Guard 6 configuration files to the Search Guard 7 format automatically.

When you are ready for the serious configuration, read this:

> **[Overview](https://docs.search-guard.com/latest/authentication-authorization)**
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> How to configure, mix and chain authentication and authorization domains for Search Guard.

> **[Demo users and roles](https://docs.search-guard.com/latest/demo-users-roles)**
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> Description of the demo users and roles Search Guard ships with. Use them as blueprint for your own permission schema.

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**Author:** ![tbhaxor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed655f/32.png) [@tbhaxor](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/tbhaxor)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 10:41am UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/what-is-the-use-of-searchguard-admin/1878/3 "2020-06-30T10:41:34Z")

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Ok, can you tell me here do i add this plugin in kibana or elasticsearch. I will surely read the docs after this

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**Author:** ![srgbnd](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.search-guard.com/srgbnd/32/506_2.png) [@srgbnd](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/srgbnd)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 10:44am UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/what-is-the-use-of-searchguard-admin/1878/4 "2020-06-30T10:44:30Z")

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The admin is a part of the demo users. It exist in Search Guard by default, both in Elasticsearch and Kibana. There are other demo users too, look [Demo users and role | Security for Elasticsearch | Search Guard](https://docs.search-guard.com/latest/demo-users-roles)

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.search-guard.com/system/32/1870_2.png) [@system](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 10:44am UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/what-is-the-use-of-searchguard-admin/1878/5 "2020-07-21T10:44:32Z")

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