Exiting: error loading config file: config file ("filebeat.yml") can only be writable by the owner but the permissions are "-rwxrwxrwx"

[kmgalanakis]

I don't know if this is a Windows-specific error but when running this, the filebeat container fails with the following error:

Exiting: error loading config file: config file ("filebeat.yml") can only be writable by the owner but the permissions are "-rwxrwxrwx" (to fix the permissions use: 'chmod go-w /usr/share/filebeat/filebeat.yml')

The same thing applies to the metricbeat container

Exiting: error loading config file: config file ("metricbeat.yml") can only be writable by the owner but the permissions are "-rwxrwxrwx" (to fix the permissions use: 'chmod go-w /usr/share/metricbeat/metricbeat.yml')

A workaround for this is to add the command: --strict.perms=false -e line in the docker-compose.yml file for each one of the "problematic" containers,

Would you be interested in a PR with such fix?

[cawa87]

Same issues on ubuntu, so its not windows specific error: elk-metricbeat01-1 | Exiting: error loading config file: config file ("metricbeat.yml") must be owned by the user identifier (uid=0) or root

[kweidi]

Same topic as in issue https://github.com/elkninja/elastic-stack-docker-part-one/issues/4

[elkninja]

implemented the strict-perms for filebeat and metricbeat - albeit broken at first - but now fixed! 😄