# Three different Dashboard users

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/three-different-dashboard-users/5069>\
**Category:** Dashboard\
**Created:** [20 November 2018 13:52 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/three-different-dashboard-users/5069 "2018-11-20T13:52:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![ukmoose](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/ukmoose/32/13_2.png) [@ukmoose](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ukmoose)\
**Post date:** [18 December 2018 07:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/three-different-dashboard-users/5069/20 "2018-12-18T07:59:23Z")

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To quote a very recent post to the slack channel by @dceejay

> The dashboard is a plugin set of nodes for Node-RED so uses the same authentication as that. By default just a simple basic auth, but other schemes are possible to add via middleware.

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