# Basic Setup failures joining an existing cluster
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-setup-failures-joining-an-existing-cluster/351830
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 25, 2024, 7:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-setup-failures-joining-an-existing-cluster/351830 "2024-01-25T19:53:41Z")
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### Author:  [@bryanrood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bryanrood)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2024, 7:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-setup-failures-joining-an-existing-cluster/351830/1 "2024-01-25T19:53:41Z")
Hi there,
I have been beating my head against a tree trying to get nodes added to my new ES cluster.
I'm trying to build a 6 node ES cluster. I got the first node working and I'm trying to add the second node. I can generate the token just fine.
The problem I'm having now is I keep getting a autoconfig dir ownership mismatch.
ES is installed from my user and it creates an elasticsearch user account that has no login allowed.
However, the /etc/elasticsearch, /elastic(my data mount) folder are all owned by root, so I get the following error when trying to join the cluster from the /usr/share/elasticsearch folder:
[brood@ares2 elasticsearch]$ bin/elasticsearch --enrollment-token
ERROR: Aborting auto configuration because of config dir ownership mismatch. Config dir is owned by root but auto-configuration directory would be owned by brood, with exit code 78
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2024, 7:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-setup-failures-joining-an-existing-cluster/351830/2 "2024-02-22T19:53:59Z")
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