Hi, Is it normal for the elasticsearch config directory to be only accessible using sudo ? amdin1@amdin1-virtual-machine:~$ cd /etc/elasticsearch bash: cd: /etc/elasticsearch: Permission denied The issue is that when setting the path for the .p12 cert, elasticsearch wont start throwing an error P…

Permission to elasticsearch config directory

ikakavas (Ioannis Kakavas) April 10, 2020, 12:44pm 2

How did you install elasticsearch and what OS are you using? How are you running elasticsearch ?

This looks very much related to what happens with your kibana installation with the permission issues in Using https to login to Kibana.

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