Quick and clear answer thank you. 2015-07-09 21:07 GMT+02:00 Nicholas Chammas <nicholas.cham...@gmail.com>:
> 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 >> >>
