# After new install "Can not run elasticsearch as root"

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-new-install-can-not-run-elasticsearch-as-root/196796>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 26, 2019, 2:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-new-install-can-not-run-elasticsearch-as-root/196796 "2019-08-26T14:41:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 5:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-new-install-can-not-run-elasticsearch-as-root/196796/11 "2019-08-29T17:18:56Z")

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Thanks for the answer,  
you can see accesses and owner with the stat command and the usefull parameters on elasticsearch.service

stat /usr/share/elasticsearch/  
File : '/usr/share/elasticsearch/'  
Size : 4096 - Blocks : 8 - IO Block : 4096 - directory  
Device : 801h/2049d Inode : 2498173 Links : 7  
Access : (0777/drwxrwxrwx) UID : ( 0/ root) GID : ( 0/ root)

stat /etc/elasticsearch/  
File : '/etc/elasticsearch/'  
Size : 4096 - Blocks : 8 - IO Block : 4096 - directory  
Device : 801h/2049d Inode : 524301 Links : 2  
Access : (2777/drwxrwsrwx) UID : ( 0/ root) GID : ( 130/elasticsearch)

stat /usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service  
File : '/usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service'  
Size : 1679 - Blocks : 8 - IO Block : 4096 - regular file  
Device : 801h/2049d Inode : 2361390 Links : 1  
Access : (0644/-rw-r--r--) UID : ( 0/ root) GID : ( 0/ root)

cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service  
[...]User=elasticsearch  
Group=elasticsearch  
ExecStart=/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch -p ${PID\_DIR}/elasticsearch.pid --quiet[...]

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