# Elastic Synthetics Journey: Receiving \`permission denied\`

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-synthetics-journey-receiving-permission-denied/330032
**Category:** Synthetics
**Tags:** docker
**Created:** [April 14, 2023, 5:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-synthetics-journey-receiving-permission-denied/330032 "2023-04-14T17:05:31Z")
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#### Post date: [April 27, 2023, 9:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-synthetics-journey-receiving-permission-denied/330032/17 "2023-04-27T21:21:45Z")

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In my last investigation I checked the permissions of the folders inside `/tmp` and discovered that my monitors are being copied to the agent with permissions to the root user only. I suspect this is the reason why the `elastic-agent` user can't execute that `.bin/elastic-synthetics` command.

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