Sujeet, Creating a new user is recommended.
I think Andy Purtell has written some script to launch an HBase cluster on EC2. Check this out: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-1961 These scripts can be used to launch a cluster easily. Regards, Vaibhav On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Sujee Maniyam <su...@sujee.net> wrote: > 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 >
