# Start Elasticsearch as a Service in RHEL with a domain user

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-elasticsearch-as-a-service-in-rhel-with-a-domain-user/201990>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 2, 2019, 3:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-elasticsearch-as-a-service-in-rhel-with-a-domain-user/201990 "2019-10-02T15:25:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![nahiko2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc8723/32.png) [@nahiko2000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nahiko2000)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 3:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-elasticsearch-as-a-service-in-rhel-with-a-domain-user/201990/1 "2019-10-02T15:25:12Z")

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Hi!

We are starting all the stack (Filebeat, Logstash, Elastic and Kibana) with a local user.  
Can we start these services with a domain user?

I mean, right now we have some Filebeats (some in windows, some in RHEL), and Logstash, Elasticsearch and Kibana in RHEL.  
We start every service with

> sudo systemctl start elasticsearch.service

In the elasticsearch.service / logstash.service / filebeat.service / kibana.service we have a local user configured.

we are going to install a new version of Elastic stack. Is there any problem starting the services with a domain user (an Active Directory user) ? We have no problems entering these machines with the domain user, of course!

Thanks!

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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:** [October 30, 2019, 3:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-elasticsearch-as-a-service-in-rhel-with-a-domain-user/201990/2 "2019-10-30T15:25:18Z")

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