Hi All, this is more of a logistical question... setting up a small Hbase cluster (5-10 nodes) on EC2. Wondering if I should just setup Hadoop as ROOT user or create another user account (say, hadoop).
I do understand and follow the convention that ROOT user is for admin only and not running programs as ROOT. But creating another user involves running through extra steps on all machines - user creation - password - adding to SUDOers - ssh-key setup - ..etc Is there an easy to way to automate this? any EC2 specific tricks? Any one has any thoughts one way or another? thanks Sujee http://sujee.net