# X509 certificate plugin gets permission denied **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Tags:** agent\ **Created:** [January 21, 2021, 11:16am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/x509-certificate-plugin-gets-permission-denied/807 "2021-01-21T11:16:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mbarper](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/mbarper/32/2058_2.png) [@mbarper](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/mbarper)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 11:16am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/x509-certificate-plugin-gets-permission-denied/807/1 "2021-01-21T11:16:42Z")
## Environment Ubuntu 18.04 ## Problem/Question I guess is a permission problem as the cert file I want to monitor is owned by root. So my real question/problem is, how can I handle this? It is possible to elevate permissions for the plugin to monitor owned by root certificates? ## What I expected to happen I expect to be able to monitor any file with independence to the owner user. ---
**Author:** ![ilyam8](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/ilyam8/32/134_2.png) [@ilyam8](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/ilyam8)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 11:29am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/x509-certificate-plugin-gets-permission-denied/807/2 "2021-01-21T11:29:22Z")
Hi @mbarper Indeed, `netdata` user has no permissions to read files owned by `root`. I am not a specialist, but i think we had pretty similar issue with `filecheck` collector, see [Running Firefox as root in a regular user's session is not supported. ($HOME is /root which is owned by netdata.) · Issue #10205 · netdata/netdata · GitHub](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/10205) We ended up with this solution [go.d.plugin/modules/filecheck at master · netdata/go.d.plugin · GitHub](https://github.com/netdata/go.d.plugin/tree/master/modules/filecheck#permissions) I hope it will help to resolve the problem!