---
title: stack es security oidc-authenticate cli command
description: Authenticate OpenID Connect. Behaviour flags: --dry-run — validate all inputs and exit without performing any action 
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/4083/reference/elastic-cli/cli/stack/es/security/oidc-authenticate
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Preview
  - Elastic Stack: Preview
---

# stack es security oidc-authenticate cli command
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```bash
elastic stack es security oidc-authenticate \
  --nonce <nonce> \
  --redirect-uri <redirect-uri> \
  --state <state> \
  [options]
```

Authenticate OpenID Connect.
**Behaviour flags:**
`--dry-run` — validate all inputs and exit without performing any action

## Options

<definitions>
  <definition term="--nonce string required">
    Associate a client session with an ID token and mitigate replay attacks.
    This value needs to be the same as the one that was provided to the `/_security/oidc/prepare` API or the one that was generated by Elasticsearch and included in the response to that call.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--redirect-uri string required">
    The URL to which the OpenID Connect Provider redirected the User Agent in response to an authentication request after a successful authentication.
    This URL must be provided as-is (URL encoded), taken from the body of the response or as the value of a location header in the response from the OpenID Connect Provider.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--state string required">
    Maintain state between the authentication request and the response.
    This value needs to be the same as the one that was provided to the `/_security/oidc/prepare` API or the one that was generated by Elasticsearch and included in the response to that call.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--realm string">
    The name of the OpenID Connect realm.
    This property is useful in cases where multiple realms are defined.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--error-trace">
    When set to `true` Elasticsearch will include the full stack trace of errors
    when they occur.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--filter-path string">
    Comma-separated list of filters in dot notation which reduce the response
    returned by Elasticsearch.
    **Repeatable:** pass `--filter-path` multiple times to supply more than one value
  </definition>
  <definition term="--human">
    When set to `true` will return statistics in a format suitable for humans.
    For example `"exists_time": "1h"` for humans and
    `"exists_time_in_millis": 3600000` for computers. When disabled the human
    readable values will be omitted. This makes sense for responses being consumed
    only by machines.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--pretty">
    If set to `true` the returned JSON will be "pretty-formatted". Only use
    this option for debugging only.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--input-file string">
    path to a JSON file to use as command input
  </definition>
  <definition term="--dry-run">
    validate all inputs and exit without performing any action (preview changes without applying them)
  </definition>
</definitions>


## Global Options

<definitions>
  <definition term="--json">
    output as JSON
  </definition>
</definitions>