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Expand Up @@ -31,6 +31,13 @@ By default, Cloudflare Tunnel expects all of the configuration to exist in the `
cloudflared service install
```

:::note
Installing the `cloudflared` systemd service on Linux typically requires elevated privileges. When the install command is run with `sudo`, `$HOME` points to `/root`, which may prevent `cloudflared` from locating a configuration file created in `/home/<USER>/.cloudflared/config.yml`. In this case, the config path can be passed explicitly:
```sh
sudo cloudflared --config /home/<USER>/.cloudflared/config.yml service install
```
:::

2. Start the service.

```sh
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