# Filebeat output bad permissions

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-output-bad-permissions/271500>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [April 28, 2021, 10:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-output-bad-permissions/271500 "2021-04-28T10:55:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![seddikalaouiismaili](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/seddikalaouiismaili/32/87834_2.png) [@seddikalaouiismaili](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/seddikalaouiismaili)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 10:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-output-bad-permissions/271500/1 "2021-04-28T10:55:13Z")

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hi,

These are my filebeat configuration:

```
filebeat.inputs:
- type: log
  paths:
       - /var/log/file1.log
       - /var/log/file2.log 

output.file:
  path: "/var/log/"
  filename: "all.log"
  permissions: 0644
  rotate_every_kb: 20000
  number_of_files: 2

processors:
  - drop_fields:
        fields: ["fileset.name", "read_timestamp", "input.type", "log.offset", "log.source.address", "agent.ephemeral_id", "agent.name", "agent.type", "agent.version", "ecs.version", "host.name", "fileset.name", "stream", "beat.hostname", "beat.name"]

```

pb :  
1 - set permissionss doesn't work  
2 - other process can't read output file, because the permissions don't change (600) !!

I have read several topic, so filebeat has default umask =\> 0027 , so all files created will have '0640' permissions

is there any way to solve pb pls ?

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**Author:** ![seddikalaouiismaili](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/seddikalaouiismaili/32/87834_2.png) [@seddikalaouiismaili](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/seddikalaouiismaili)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2021, 10:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-output-bad-permissions/271500/2 "2021-04-30T10:36:42Z")

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Any help pls ?

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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 28, 2021, 12:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-output-bad-permissions/271500/3 "2021-05-28T12:37:14Z")

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