# Auditbeat permission Error

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-permission-error/213318>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** auditbeat\
**Created:** [December 30, 2019, 8:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-permission-error/213318 "2019-12-30T08:02:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 4:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-permission-error/213318/2 "2019-12-31T16:28:00Z")

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Hi Vamsi,

I believe the user account has insufficient privileges. Try "sudo " on linux/macos or "run as administrator" (on windows)

Here's a link to some info on running auditbeat as a non-root user as well (linux specific I believe)

> [@Run Auditbeat with non-root user](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/run-auditbeat-with-non-root-user/193707):
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> Hi Elastic Team, I run ELK on Linux(CentOS7). Because of security issue, I need to run Auditbeat with non-root user. When runing Auditbeat with non-root user, it shows: 2019-08 WARN [cfgwarn] host/host.go:167 BETA: The system/host dataset is beta 2019-08 WARN [cfgwarn] login/login.go:95 BETA: The system/login dataset is beta 2019-08 WARN [cfgwarn] package/package.go:169 BETA: The system/package dataset is beta 2019-08 WARN [cfgwarn] …

Hope this helps!

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