$ hamachi list You do not have permission to control the hamachid daemon. You can run 'hamachi' as root, or you can add your login name to the file '/var/lib/logmein-hamachi/h2-engine-override.cfg' and restart the daemon with older systems: sudo /etc/init.d/logmein-hamachi restart newer systems: sudo service logmein-hamachi restart Example of /var/lib/logmein-hamachi/h2-engine-override.cfg: Ipc.User