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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 17:21:19 -0700
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Subject: Re: install by user not root privilege
From: Yusaku Sako <yusaku@hortonworks.com>
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No, you cannot use local linux account for provisioning if they are not "root".

Currently, ambari-server needs to run as a non-root user, but
ambari-agent has to run as root.  This is because it needs root
privileges to perform software installs via yum/zypper, directory
creation, owner/permission modifications, etc.
However, there's a JIRA open to allow non-root, sudo users to run the agents [1]

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMBARI-1596

Yusaku

On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Anfernee Xu <anfernee.xu@gmail.com> wrote:
> Since my target machines are strictly controlled by my IT, all Linux local
> account does not have root privilege, so they cannot run "sudo ...."
> command. As a workaround, I can use my domain account to perform Ambari
> installation(sever and agent), but my question is can I use local linux
> account for provisioning(install Hadoop, HDFS Yarn)?
>
> --
> --Anfernee

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