diff --git a/salt/common/tools/sbin/so-user b/salt/common/tools/sbin/so-user
index b1a717ce8..2d4e1076d 100755
--- a/salt/common/tools/sbin/so-user
+++ b/salt/common/tools/sbin/so-user
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ function syncElastic() {
   syncElasticSystemUser "$authPillarJson" "so_monitor_user"  "$usersTmpFile"
 
   syncElasticSystemRole "$authPillarJson" "so_elastic_user"  "superuser" "$rolesTmpFile"
-  syncElasticSystemRole "$authPillarJson" "so_kibana_user"   "superuser" "$rolesTmpFile"
+  syncElasticSystemRole "$authPillarJson" "so_kibana_user"   "kibana_system" "$rolesTmpFile"
   syncElasticSystemRole "$authPillarJson" "so_logstash_user" "superuser" "$rolesTmpFile"
   syncElasticSystemRole "$authPillarJson" "so_beats_user"    "superuser" "$rolesTmpFile"
   syncElasticSystemRole "$authPillarJson" "so_monitor_user"  "remote_monitoring_collector" "$rolesTmpFile"