# What Linux permissions or attributes does a user needs to install Elasticsearch and Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-linux-permissions-or-attributes-does-a-user-needs-to-install-elasticsearch-and-kibana/169110>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 19, 2019, 9:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-linux-permissions-or-attributes-does-a-user-needs-to-install-elasticsearch-and-kibana/169110 "2019-02-19T21:46:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Daniel\_Gonzalez1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@Daniel\_Gonzalez1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Daniel_Gonzalez1)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 9:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-linux-permissions-or-attributes-does-a-user-needs-to-install-elasticsearch-and-kibana/169110/1 "2019-02-19T21:46:20Z")

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What linux (Redhat, Suse, Ubuntu) permissions or attributes does a user needs to install Elasticsearch and Kibana?

Regards!

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 10:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-linux-permissions-or-attributes-does-a-user-needs-to-install-elasticsearch-and-kibana/169110/2 "2019-02-19T22:11:38Z")

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Usually sudo is all you need.

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**Author:** ![Daniel\_Gonzalez1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@Daniel\_Gonzalez1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Daniel_Gonzalez1)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 10:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-linux-permissions-or-attributes-does-a-user-needs-to-install-elasticsearch-and-kibana/169110/3 "2019-02-19T22:20:18Z")

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Thanks Bro!!

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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:** [March 19, 2019, 10:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-linux-permissions-or-attributes-does-a-user-needs-to-install-elasticsearch-and-kibana/169110/4 "2019-03-19T22:20:24Z")

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