Yes - the ssh key needs to be for root. The node discovery and setup phase 
involves installing rpms, etc that require root-level permissions. 

-- Hitesh

On Aug 3, 2012, at 1:20 PM, Jennie Cochran-Chinn wrote:

> Gotta be root user?  Sounds like Artem is using hduser?
> 
> On 8/3/12 1:16 PM, "Vitthal "Suhas" Gogate" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Looks like things are failing while contacting and doing sanity checks
>> for the nodes being added..  although I guess you need to use the
>> private rsa key to do the passwd-less ssh to remote nodes..  You can
>> manually try from ambari server  ssh -i priv_key root@remote_host to
>> see that works..
>> 
>> 
>> Also can you post the  relevant part of the log at
>> /var/log/hmc/hmc.log to see what exact error you getting..
>> 
>> --Suhas
>> 
>> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Artem Ervits <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hello all, I'm trying to install a Hadoop cluster with Ambari on one VM
>>> and two additional nodes that will serve as a hadoop cluster. On step 2,
>>> where it says to add nodes, I select the id_rsa.pub file for the user
>>> I'm running the install with, let's call it hduser. I already copied the
>>> ssh keys to all machines and setup passwordless ssh to each and all
>>> machines. I also select /etc/hosts file that has all three VMs. When I
>>> hit next, it fails for some or all of the machines. I then created
>>> another file called hosts, containing the names of only two machines
>>> participating in a hadoop cluster, excluding the Ambari server. The add
>>> nodes step fails again due to permission denied again. It does, still
>>> include my Ambari server as the 3rd server to install hadoop on. Is
>>> there anything that I'm doing wrong?
>>> 
>>> Thank you.
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