# Beats 7.5.x **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** filebeat\ **Created:** [December 18, 2019, 6:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-7-5-x/212388 "2019-12-18T18:51:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![shoopdas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@shoopdas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shoopdas)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2019, 6:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-7-5-x/212388/1 "2019-12-18T18:51:08Z")
Heya all, new here. Looking at the changelog on fir beats 7.5.0, more specifically the breaking change for umask for files. Is there any way of giving the 'other' users read permissions? WIth umask beign set to 0027, others can never get read permissions to filebeat logs logging.to\_files: true logging.files: path: /var/log/filebeat name: filebeat keepfiles: 7 permissions: 0644 will result in 0640 on filebeat log files any way of chaning the default umask? making changes to the service file with UMask=0000 or environment UMask=0000 doesnt work debian stretch is the OS ---
**Author:** ![shaunak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shaunak/32/6643_2.png) [@shaunak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaunak)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 11:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-7-5-x/212388/2 "2019-12-21T11:55:41Z")
Maybe the users that need to read the Filebeat logs could be part of the same group that the Filebeat log files get written as? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2020, 11:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-7-5-x/212388/3 "2020-01-18T11:55:42Z")
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