No plans to change that at the moment, but agreed it is against accepted convention. It would be a lot of work to change the tool, change the AMIs, and test everything. My suggestion is not to hold your breath for such a change.
spark-ec2, as far as I understand, is not intended for spinning up permanent or production infrastructure (though people may use it for those purposes), so there isn't a big impetus to fix this kind of issue. It works really well for what it was intended for: spinning up clusters for testing, prototyping, and experimenting. Nick On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 3:25 AM matd <matd...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Spark ec2 scripts are useful, but they install everything as root. > AFAIK, it's not a good practice ;-) > > Why is it so ? > Should these scripts reserved for test/demo purposes, and not to be used > for > a production system ? > Is it planned in some roadmap to improve that, or to replace ec2-scripts > with something else ? > > Would it be difficult to change them to use a sudo-er instead ? > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/spark-ec2-as-non-root-any-plan-to-improve-that-in-the-future-tp23734.html > Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org > >
