We've been using whirr to launch instances of the (redhat-based) Amazon AMI, which has been working. However, I'm now trying to switch to launching an ubuntu-based AMI, and I'm running into problems.
Ubuntu, as you might recall, doesn't allow you to log in directly as root. Rather, you log in as user ubuntu, and then sudo to root. This is causing problems when whirr tries to set up my data nodes. I've configured whirr to use "ubuntu" as the bootstrap user, which seems to work fine initially. But after a short while in the installation process, it fails. And when I go onto the data node machine to watch what's happening, I see that something (most likely whirr) is trying to login as root. So I'm fairly certain that's what's causing the installation to fail. Is there a way around this issue? Thanks, DR
