# Changing file and directory permission for /usr/share/logstash?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-file-and-directory-permission-for-usr-share-logstash/82819>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [April 19, 2017, 5:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-file-and-directory-permission-for-usr-share-logstash/82819 "2017-04-19T05:24:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![YuWatanabe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yuwatanabe/32/13259_2.png) [@YuWatanabe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/YuWatanabe)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 5:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-file-and-directory-permission-for-usr-share-logstash/82819/1 "2017-04-19T05:24:34Z")

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Hello.

Logstash version : _5.3.0_

I am trying to startup logstash with customer user via systemd on RHEL 7. I am doing this due to customer's security compliance.

I was able to startup logstash by fixing below environment.

1. Modify logstash.service

2. Change directory and file permissions

However, I also want to change the permission for home directory of logstash.

```
[root@host logstash]# ls -ld /usr/share/logstash/
drwxr-xr-x. 10 logstash logstash 4096 Apr 8 16:36 /usr/share/logstash/

```

May I change this directory permission recursively to **my custom user( sample-logstash )**?  
Or should I leave the directory permission as **"logstash"**?

`chown -R sample-logstash:sample-logstash /usr/share/logstash`

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 5:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-file-and-directory-permission-for-usr-share-logstash/82819/2 "2017-05-17T05:40:05Z")

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