# Vault Open bolt file permission denied, cannot start vault

**URL:** <https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/vault-open-bolt-file-permission-denied-cannot-start-vault/21988>\
**Category:** Vault\
**Created:** [March 12, 2021, 2:28pm UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/vault-open-bolt-file-permission-denied-cannot-start-vault/21988 "2021-03-12T14:28:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![kinwolfqc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hashicorp/user_avatar/discuss.hashicorp.com/kinwolfqc/32/6695_2.png) [@kinwolfqc](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/kinwolfqc)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2021, 2:28pm UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/vault-open-bolt-file-permission-denied-cannot-start-vault/21988/1 "2021-03-12T14:28:07Z")

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Hi, I am “mostly” following the doc to try to install vault on RHEL. [Day 1: Deploying Your First Vault Cluster with Integrated Storage | Vault - HashiCorp Learn](https://learn.hashicorp.com/collections/vault/day-one-raft)  
I say “mostly” only because I am installing vault using the hashicorp repo, so some steps are done already(like creating the vault user and group)

Anyway, when I try to start the service as the user “vault”, I always get the message “Error initializing storage of type raft: failed to create fsm: failed to open bolt file: open /data/vault/raft/vault.db: permission denied”

The permission on that folder are: `drw-rw-rw-. 2 664 vault 6 Mar 12 09:09 raft`

Starting the service as root works, but of course it’s not what we want.

As a test I even granted 777 to all folders under /data recursively, and even that doesn’t work. still access denied when trying to run vault as the “vault” user

vault version is 1.6.3

Any help?

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**Author:** ![martinhristov90](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hashicorp/user_avatar/discuss.hashicorp.com/martinhristov90/32/36757_2.png) [@martinhristov90](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/martinhristov90)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/vault-open-bolt-file-permission-denied-cannot-start-vault/21988/2 "2021-03-15T10:12:20Z")

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Hello,

What is the output of `ls -lh /data/vault/raft/vault.db` ?

Martin

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**Author:** ![kinwolfqc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hashicorp/user_avatar/discuss.hashicorp.com/kinwolfqc/32/6695_2.png) [@kinwolfqc](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/kinwolfqc)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 11:20am UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/vault-open-bolt-file-permission-denied-cannot-start-vault/21988/3 "2021-03-15T11:20:38Z")

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We ended up redoing the mount of the drive and it solved the problem. We have no idea what the glitch was but it’s working now. Thanks