# Elastic user password not working

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-user-password-not-working/275342>\
**Category:** Elastic Training\
**Created:** [June 8, 2021, 7:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-user-password-not-working/275342 "2021-06-08T19:26:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![redamberfish](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/redamberfish/32/78726_2.png) [@redamberfish](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/redamberfish)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 7:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-user-password-not-working/275342/1 "2021-06-08T19:26:51Z")

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Hello,  
Similar to [Sudo password for elastic user](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sudo-password-for-elastic-user/227806), I am trying to complete the lab for Observability Fundamentals, but I need to use "sudo" to download and install packages. It keeps telling me the password is incorrect, but I have tried resetting the password, and it still does not accept it. Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Rich\_Raposa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rich_raposa/32/62078_2.png) [@Rich\_Raposa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rich_Raposa)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 8:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-user-password-not-working/275342/2 "2021-06-08T20:37:50Z")

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Which lab are you doing and which step are you on? I do not think you need `sudo` access to complete any of the labs.

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**Author:** ![redamberfish](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/redamberfish/32/78726_2.png) [@redamberfish](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/redamberfish)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 8:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-user-password-not-working/275342/3 "2021-06-08T20:45:09Z")

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> [@redamberfish](#):
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> Observability Fundamentals

I am trying to do the Observability Fundamentals ([Loading](https://learn.elastic.co/learn/course/391/observability-fundamentals)), but I cannot get the lab with Strigo to work. I need to install Filebeat using dpkg, but I can't because I am not a superuser.  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/3/7/37ec7fe5e43c09f01ca71fe3edbe86d2d79cd40c.png)

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**Author:** ![Rich\_Raposa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rich_raposa/32/62078_2.png) [@Rich\_Raposa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rich_Raposa)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 9:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-user-password-not-working/275342/4 "2021-06-08T21:19:35Z")

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I'm pretty sure Filebeat is already installed. Are you missing a step where maybe you are supposed to SSH onto another server? Something like `ssh server1`?

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**Author:** ![Andre\_Murbach\_Maidl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andre_murbach_maidl/32/83508_2.png) [@Andre\_Murbach\_Maidl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andre_Murbach_Maidl)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 11:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-user-password-not-working/275342/5 "2021-06-09T11:31:17Z")

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@redamberfish ,

`sudo` is not necessary for completing lab steps. As stated by step 2.1, you can use the following commands to download and extract Filebeat:

```auto
curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-7.13.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

tar -xzf filebeat-7.13.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

cd filebeat-7.13.1-linux-x86_64

```

Best,  
Andre

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**Author:** ![redamberfish](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/redamberfish/32/78726_2.png) [@redamberfish](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/redamberfish)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 12:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-user-password-not-working/275342/6 "2021-06-09T12:07:23Z")

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@Andre_Murbach_Maidl Thank you! The instructions I was following was for the wrong thing 😛 I got it working now.

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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:** [July 9, 2021, 12:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-user-password-not-working/275342/7 "2021-07-09T12:08:17Z")

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