# Kopia UI as root

**URL:** <https://kopia.discourse.group/t/kopia-ui-as-root/530>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [July 12, 2021, 6:57pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/kopia-ui-as-root/530 "2021-07-12T18:57:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![kopund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e79b87/32.png) [@kopund](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/kopund)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2023, 12:57pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/kopia-ui-as-root/530/12 "2023-06-23T12:57:53Z")

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As a noob who has run into this issue, I’ll just quickly lay out for other noobs how this solved the problem for me:

1. Run ` sudo setcap cap_dac_read_search=+ep /opt/KopiaUI/resources/server/kopia`

This does not provide any output.

1. Launch Kopia UI the regular way via your Gnome launcher or any other way you do it.

Kopia UI can now back up root files.

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