Configuring authentication

Search Guard offers you a great variety of different authentication modules and configuration options.

The basic configuration is often very simple; still, Search Guard offers powerful mechanisms to work with special use-cases and setups.

You can choose now:

• Do you want to jump directly to one of the “Quick Start” docs for a particular authentication mode?
  • Password-based authentication
  • LDAP and Active Directory
  • JWT
• Or do you want to learn more about the general configuration approach?

Note: OIDC and SAML based authentication is only available for Kibana. See the documentation on Kibana authentication for details.

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