# Permission denied Can't run elasticsearch **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [May 17, 2018, 2:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/permission-denied-cant-run-elasticsearch/132352 "2018-05-17T14:14:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![applicate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@applicate](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/applicate)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 2:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/permission-denied-cant-run-elasticsearch/132352/1 "2018-05-17T14:14:53Z")
Lenovo-G50-80:/usr/share/elasticsearch$ bin/elasticsearch bin/elasticsearch-env: line 70: /etc/default/elasticsearch: Permission denied ---
**Author:** ![dalamar666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@dalamar666](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dalamar666)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 2:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/permission-denied-cant-run-elasticsearch/132352/2 "2018-05-17T14:34:23Z")
Can you do an ls -l on the directory and make sure it is owned by elasticsearch:elasticsearch? ---
**Author:** ![applicate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@applicate](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/applicate)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 2:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/permission-denied-cant-run-elasticsearch/132352/3 "2018-05-17T14:41:27Z")
Here it is Lenovo-G50-80:/usr/share/elasticsearch$ ls -l total 216 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 17 20:09 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 17 20:09 lib drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 May 17 20:09 modules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 191887 Apr 13 02:09 NOTICE.txt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 13 02:09 plugins -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9268 Apr 13 02:09 README.textile ---
**Author:** ![dalamar666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@dalamar666](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dalamar666)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 2:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/permission-denied-cant-run-elasticsearch/132352/4 "2018-05-17T14:45:46Z")
That is your problem. please run this command sudo chown -R elasticsearch:elasticsearch /usr/share/elasticsearch ---
**Author:** ![applicate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@applicate](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/applicate)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 3:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/permission-denied-cant-run-elasticsearch/132352/5 "2018-05-17T15:28:15Z")
Did not work. ---
**Author:** ![dalamar666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@dalamar666](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dalamar666)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/permission-denied-cant-run-elasticsearch/132352/6 "2018-05-17T15:32:42Z")
are you running elastisearch as the user? Ifnot, try sudo bin/elasticsearch ---
**Author:** ![applicate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@applicate](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/applicate)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 3:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/permission-denied-cant-run-elasticsearch/132352/7 "2018-05-17T15:41:12Z")
[2018-05-17T21:05:43,604][WARN][o.e.b.ElasticsearchUncaughtExceptionHandler] [] uncaught exception in thread [main] org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.StartupException: java.lang.RuntimeException: can not run elasticsearch as root at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:125) ~[elasticsearch-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:112) ~[elasticsearch-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4] at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:86) ~[elasticsearch-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4] at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:124) ~[elasticsearch-cli-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4] at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90) ~[elasticsearch-cli-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:92) ~[elasticsearch-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:85) ~[elasticsearch-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4] Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: **can not run elasticsearch as root** at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.initializeNatives(Bootstrap.java:105) ~[elasticsearch-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:172) ~[elasticsearch-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:323) ~[elasticsearch-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:121) ~[elasticsearch-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4] ... 6 more Lenovo-G50-80:/usr/share/elasticsearch$ curl [http://localhost:9200/](http://localhost:9200/) curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 9200: Connection refused ---
**Author:** ![roshni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce7236/32.png) [@roshni](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/roshni)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 10:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/permission-denied-cant-run-elasticsearch/132352/8 "2018-05-29T10:00:54Z")
Elasticsearch cannot run from root when build from source . If you are logged in via user "Lenovo-G50-80" try - sudo chown -R Lenovo-G50-80:Lenovo-G50-80 /usr/share/elasticsearch and then execute . Also enable ports 9200 and 9300 . ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 10:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/permission-denied-cant-run-elasticsearch/132352/9 "2018-06-26T10:00:59Z")
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