Azure Repository Plugin access denied to elasticsearch.keystore

[brandonmichaelhunter]

I've installed Azure Repository plugin into my 6.4 ES instance on my Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS box which is hosted inside of a VM in Azure. I'm trying to perform backups and restores using a storage account I created in azure. When I try to set the account and key values I get the following error from the console:
"Exception in thread 'main' java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.keystore".
I've tried running on sudo and still the same error.

Provided below is an the error when I try to set the account value from a txt file and the permissions set on the /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.keystore, /etc/elasticsearch and /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin folders.

[rjernst (Ryan Ernst)]

What are the permissions of /etc/elasticsearch (not the contents)?

[brandonmichaelhunter]

See the images above.
The first one is the permissions on the file permissions within the /etc/elasticsearch folder and the second is the folder permissions for elasticsearch.

[brandonmichaelhunter]

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I'd resolved my issue by updating the following permissions on the elasticsearch.keystore file. Tell me if this is the right way to do it..

sudo chmod a+rwx /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.keystore - All Users
sudo chmod u+rwx /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.keystore - Group
sudo chmod g+rwx /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.keystore - Owner