# Users prerequisites (sudo). To do what?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/users-prerequisites-sudo-to-do-what/79442>\
**Category:** Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE)\
**Created:** [March 21, 2017, 2:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/users-prerequisites-sudo-to-do-what/79442 "2017-03-21T14:56:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![JohnnyB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/johnnyb/32/13450_2.png) [@JohnnyB](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JohnnyB)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 2:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/users-prerequisites-sudo-to-do-what/79442/1 "2017-03-21T14:56:31Z")

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In [Check the Prerequisites](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-enterprise/current/ece-prereqs.html#ece-prereqs-users), you ask sudo group for the elastic user.

My security manager ask which command the elastic user will sudo to ?

Thanks for your precisions,  
Johnny.

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**Author:** ![nrichers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nrichers/32/17801_2.png) [@nrichers](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nrichers)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 4:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/users-prerequisites-sudo-to-do-what/79442/2 "2017-03-21T16:54:07Z")

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@JohnnyB,

It doesn't have to be the `elastic` user, but to prepare your environment, you need a user with sudo permissions.

The exact commands that this user will execute depend on your Linux distro, but they are documented [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-enterprise/current/ece-configure-hosts.html).

For Ubuntu, for example, this includes installing the required packages with the `sudo apt-get update install` command, creating an XFS file system and mounting it, updating the Docker configuration and restarting the Docker service, along with a few others. All of these commands require sudo permission to complete successfully.

I hope this answers your question. If not, perhaps you could tell me what exact information you need to supply to your security manager?

Nik

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**Author:** ![JohnnyB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/johnnyb/32/13450_2.png) [@JohnnyB](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JohnnyB)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 7:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/users-prerequisites-sudo-to-do-what/79442/3 "2017-03-22T07:51:58Z")

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Hi Nick,

Thanks for this explanations.

I I misunderstanded the documentation and thought that the elastic usder need privileges at runtime.

BTW, my poc will run on CentOS 7. I hope I could begin tests in April.

Johnny.

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**Author:** ![nrichers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nrichers/32/17801_2.png) [@nrichers](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nrichers)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/users-prerequisites-sudo-to-do-what/79442/4 "2017-03-22T13:46:24Z")

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You're welcome, @JohnnyB! Let me know if you run into any additional questions during your POC.

Nik

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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:** [April 5, 2017, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/users-prerequisites-sudo-to-do-what/79442/5 "2017-04-05T13:46:51Z")

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