Please add to this message your .properties file. What version of Whirr are you using? On Sep 15, 2012 7:52 PM, "David Rosenstrauch" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > >
