# ELastic Stack Installation
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-installation/96591
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 10, 2017, 10:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-installation/96591 "2017-08-10T10:52:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Vineeth604](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vineeth604)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2017, 10:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-installation/96591/1 "2017-08-10T10:52:56Z")
I am not that much familiar to elastic stack and linux. My machine's os is CentOS release 6.8 .
Previously I installed elastic stack in lower machines using root user and started the service using the same.
The stack consists of elastic search, Logstash and Kibana. Now In higher environments we are not having root access. So is it possible to install the same as custom user and also have the privilege to start/stop the services
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### Author:  [@shanec](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shanec)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2017, 8:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-installation/96591/2 "2017-08-10T20:55:16Z")
Elasticsearch doesn't support running as root and hasn't for some time. However, you can install when you're the root user. The way that's generally going to provide the best experience on CentOS is to install via an RPM. You can see instructions for that [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/rpm.html). That will create the required (non-root) user for you.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2017, 8:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-installation/96591/3 "2017-09-07T20:55:31Z")
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