# Kibana permission denied, open '/etc/kibana/kibana.yml'

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-permission-denied-open-etc-kibana-kibana-yml/276821
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [June 23, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-permission-denied-open-etc-kibana-kibana-yml/276821 "2021-06-23T16:29:19Z")
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### Author: ![Vladimir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vladimir/32/91042_2.png) [@Vladimir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vladimir)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-permission-denied-open-etc-kibana-kibana-yml/276821/1 "2021-06-23T16:29:19Z")

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I have Kibana installed under the sudo user. As I try to run

`/usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana -c /etc/kibana/kibana.yml`

I get an error:

> Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '/etc/kibana/kibana.yml'

kibana.yml chmod is 660 and chown is root:kibana

The user is in the kibana group.

Can somebody tell me please what is wrong with that?

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### Author: ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2021, 6:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-permission-denied-open-etc-kibana-kibana-yml/276821/2 "2021-06-23T18:07:02Z")

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> [@Vladimir](#):
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> Error: EACCES: permission denied, open

Can you please check ` ls -l /etc/kibana/` for permissions again ?

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### Author: ![Vladimir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vladimir/32/91042_2.png) [@Vladimir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vladimir)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2021, 6:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-permission-denied-open-etc-kibana-kibana-yml/276821/3 "2021-06-23T18:14:09Z")

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Result is

```auto
-rwxrwx--- 1 root kibana 130 Jun 23 16:55 kibana.keystore
-rw-rw---- 1 root kibana 5066 Jun 23 18:10 kibana.yml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root kibana 216 Jun 10 22:24 node.options

```

I did it according [this video tutorial](https://youtu.be/gZb7HpVOges?t=2180) where he calls

```auto
/usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana -c /etc/kibana/kibana.yml

```

BUT

as I start the Kibana according [Digital ocean tutorial](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana-elastic-stack-on-ubuntu-20-04)

```auto
sudo systemctl enable kibana
sudo systemctl start kibana

```

it works. Now I am not sure what is the difference and if the config file is that one I set up.

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2021, 11:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-permission-denied-open-etc-kibana-kibana-yml/276821/4 "2021-06-23T23:16:19Z")

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If you've installed the package, then please use `systemctl` to manage the process.

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### Author: ![Vladimir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vladimir/32/91042_2.png) [@Vladimir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vladimir)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2021, 6:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-permission-denied-open-etc-kibana-kibana-yml/276821/5 "2021-06-24T06:43:53Z")

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Ok thank you. @warkolm

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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 22, 2021, 6:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-permission-denied-open-etc-kibana-kibana-yml/276821/6 "2021-07-22T06:44:34Z")

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