Hi, ah gotcha!. cool - assume there are no hartdcoded passwords anywhere and I can just set the password as I see fit?
Don't suppose you have any links to documentation for how the setup looks, best practices etc? Cheers, J On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Mark Walkom <[email protected]> wrote: > It shouldn't run as root as the install process creates an elasticsearch > user. > Can you do a "getent passwd|grep elasticsearch" and see if it has created > one, or not? > > On 8 November 2014 03:56, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> I'm looking to do a sensible install of elasticsearch on Redhat. >> If I use >> sudo yum install elasticsearch as described here >> <http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/setup-repositories.html> >> then >> everything is owned by root. >> >> So what is the safest best-practice way to set up a user and do an >> install? >> >> Cheers, >> J >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "elasticsearch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/bd29756b-1be9-4295-a991-3066d187deb8%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/bd29756b-1be9-4295-a991-3066d187deb8%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/elasticsearch/InShlT1oD6U/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAF3ZnZnW2iRTT4SkECN0QTfL8REENhwKb18%3DDcsRawTWR%3DMtrg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAF3ZnZnW2iRTT4SkECN0QTfL8REENhwKb18%3DDcsRawTWR%3DMtrg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAMa9dfSia_U%3DUBC6ZUg0yR5qLdzpNesnN8MQpr5LhX-PC2SXMg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
