# Start up Elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-up-elasticsearch/155954>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [November 8, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-up-elasticsearch/155954 "2018-11-08T20:23:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![ELE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e9a140/32.png) [@ELE](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ELE)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-up-elasticsearch/155954/1 "2018-11-08T20:23:35Z")

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Hi,  
I'm new in elastic  
When I'm trying to startup elastic I'm getting the following error message:  
Why it saying elastic CAN'T start as root ?

> ./bin/elasticsearch

```
    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]

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 8:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-up-elasticsearch/155954/2 "2018-11-08T20:35:06Z")

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> [@ELE](#):
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> can not run elasticsearch as root

I think the error message is quite clear. You must run Elasticsearch as a non-root user. For further information, see [the documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.4/modules-scripting-security.html#_do_not_run_as_root).

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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:** [December 6, 2018, 8:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-up-elasticsearch/155954/3 "2018-12-06T20:35:27Z")

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