# Setting authentication for dashboard only

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/setting-authentication-for-dashboard-only/64789>\
**Category:** Dashboard\
**Created:** [7 July 2022 07:06 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/setting-authentication-for-dashboard-only/64789 "2022-07-07T07:06:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![lizzardguki](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/lizzardguki/32/103637_2.png) [@lizzardguki](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/lizzardguki)\
**Post date:** [7 July 2022 07:06 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/setting-authentication-for-dashboard-only/64789/1 "2022-07-07T07:06:41Z")

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I know it's possible to set authentication on all node-red endpoints via 'httpNodeauth'. But is there a way to set authentication on dashboard only?

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**Author:** ![dceejay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dceejay/32/38_2.png) [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)\
**Post date:** [7 July 2022 07:18 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/setting-authentication-for-dashboard-only/64789/2 "2022-07-07T07:18:25Z")

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No there isnt

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**Author:** ![TotallyInformation](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/totallyinformation/32/31_2.png) [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)\
**Post date:** [7 July 2022 09:30 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/setting-authentication-for-dashboard-only/64789/3 "2022-07-07T09:30:32Z")

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As an ajunct to Dave's short and to-the-point answer 🙂

You can do this via a reverse proxy. Please search for the various threads on this in the forum. Including some documentation that I wrote mainly for uibuilder users but that is generally applicable as well for configuring NGINX.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [21 July 2022 09:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/setting-authentication-for-dashboard-only/64789/4 "2022-07-21T09:31:02Z")

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