# Change the Account which is used to run the elastic stack (Windows Server)
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-the-account-which-is-used-to-run-the-elastic-stack-windows-server/344741
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 10, 2023, 1:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-the-account-which-is-used-to-run-the-elastic-stack-windows-server/344741 "2023-10-10T13:29:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Shaakxuur](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shaakxuur)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2023, 1:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-the-account-which-is-used-to-run-the-elastic-stack-windows-server/344741/1 "2023-10-10T13:29:46Z")
Hi!
I´m running the Elastic Stack onPrem with the latest version 8.10.2 (Elasticsearch - Kibana - WinlogBeat + Metricbeat).
The Elastic stack was installed with my normal Windows account on a Windows Server 2016.
Now I would like to replace my personal account with another technical account.
What do I have to do for that?
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### Author:  [@Shaakxuur](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shaakxuur)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2023, 5:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-the-account-which-is-used-to-run-the-elastic-stack-windows-server/344741/2 "2023-10-13T05:26:02Z")
First I logged in with the new account on the server and tried to start elasticsearch via cmd in the foreground.
But after I tried to start elasticsearch I got the following error message.
```auto
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: starting java failed with [1]
output:
[0.009s][error][logging] Error opening log file 'logs/gc.log': Permission denied
[0.009s][error][logging] Initialization of output 'file=logs/gc.log' using options 'filecount=32,filesize=64m' failed.
error:
Could not rename log file 'logs/gc.log' to 'logs/gc.log.14' (Permission denied).
Invalid -Xlog option '-Xlog:gc*,gc+age=trace,safepoint:file=logs/gc.log:utctime,level,pid,tags:filecount=32,filesize=64m', see error log for details.
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.
at org.elasticsearch.server.cli.JvmOption.flagsFinal(JvmOption.java:120)
at org.elasticsearch.server.cli.JvmOption.findFinalOptions(JvmOption.java:87)
at org.elasticsearch.server.cli.MachineDependentHeap.determineHeapSettings(MachineDependentHeap.java:59)
at org.elasticsearch.server.cli.JvmOptionsParser.jvmOptions(JvmOptionsParser.java:138)
at org.elasticsearch.server.cli.JvmOptionsParser.determineJvmOptions(JvmOptionsParser.java:91)
at org.elasticsearch.server.cli.ServerProcess.createProcess(ServerProcess.java:208)
at org.elasticsearch.server.cli.ServerProcess.start(ServerProcess.java:104)
at org.elasticsearch.server.cli.ServerProcess.start(ServerProcess.java:88)
at org.elasticsearch.server.cli.ServerCli.startServer(ServerCli.java:239)
at org.elasticsearch.server.cli.ServerCli.execute(ServerCli.java:100)
at org.elasticsearch.common.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:54)
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:85)
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:50)
at org.elasticsearch.launcher.CliToolLauncher.main(CliToolLauncher.java:64)
```
The new account has local admin rights but it seems that this isn´t enough. So I added explicit (modify) permissions to the elasticsearch directory to the account and tried it again.
After the second attempt, elastisearch was running normally.
Next Step: Kibana, WinlogBeat, Metricbeat ...
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### Author:  [@Shaakxuur](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shaakxuur)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2023, 5:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-the-account-which-is-used-to-run-the-elastic-stack-windows-server/344741/3 "2023-10-13T05:39:17Z")
I´ve configured the other directories explicitly with modify rights as well. Now elastic (and the other solutions) are running properly again.
But this is quite boring without any problems... 🤪
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2023, 5:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-the-account-which-is-used-to-run-the-elastic-stack-windows-server/344741/4 "2023-11-10T05:40:09Z")
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