# Reporting: Insufficient permissions error

**URL:** <https://forum.opensearch.org/t/reporting-insufficient-permissions-error/8764>\
**Category:** Reporting Plugin\
**Tags:** troubleshoot\
**Created:** [February 28, 2022, 1:49pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/reporting-insufficient-permissions-error/8764 "2022-02-28T13:49:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![alexz00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@alexz00](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/alexz00)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2022, 1:49pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/reporting-insufficient-permissions-error/8764/1 "2022-02-28T13:49:35Z")

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Hi,  
I’m trying to grant a user permissions to use reporting in Opensearch (1.2.x). I granted the following cluster permissions:

cluster:admin/opendistro/reports/definition/create  
cluster:admin/opendistro/reports/definition/update  
cluster:admin/opendistro/reports/definition/on\_demand  
cluster:admin/opendistro/reports/definition/delete  
cluster:admin/opendistro/reports/definition/get  
cluster:admin/opendistro/reports/definition/list  
cluster:admin/opendistro/reports/instance/list  
cluster:admin/opendistro/reports/instance/get  
cluster:admin/opendistro/reports/menu/download

but the user is still getting “Insufficient permissions” error when trying to create a report. What am I missing?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![joshli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@joshli](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/joshli)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/reporting-insufficient-permissions-error/8764/2 "2022-03-18T22:03:21Z")

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Hi, thanks for submitting this. Could you try open reporting plugin page in admin account once, then try to generate the report with user account? I checked the error is that the user doesn’t have permission to create the reporting index. By opening the plugin page, admin will create the index and user will be able to use it.

Created a tracking issue: [[BUG] Reports indices cannot be created with reporting\_full\_access role · Issue #309 · opensearch-project/dashboards-reports · GitHub](https://github.com/opensearch-project/dashboards-reports/issues/309)