# Adding TAKE\_FILE\_OWNERSHIP=true to kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-take-file-ownership-true-to-kibana/210463>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 4, 2019, 6:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-take-file-ownership-true-to-kibana/210463 "2019-12-04T06:02:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![rdaimler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@rdaimler](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rdaimler)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 6:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-take-file-ownership-true-to-kibana/210463/1 "2019-12-04T06:02:50Z")

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Hello,

Elasticsearch has the environment variable TAKE\_FILE\_OWNERSHIP=true to loosen permissions on a custom data directory set with path.data. Would it be possible to add the same option to kibana?

Thanks,  
Rob

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**Author:** ![rdaimler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@rdaimler](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rdaimler)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 10:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-take-file-ownership-true-to-kibana/210463/2 "2019-12-12T22:12:07Z")

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The issues I noticed seem to be fixed in 7.5.0.

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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 11:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-take-file-ownership-true-to-kibana/210463/3 "2019-12-12T23:14:52Z")

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Great, thanks for updating here.

Cheers  
Rashmi

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 11:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-take-file-ownership-true-to-kibana/210463/4 "2020-01-09T23:15:00Z")

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