[Openstack] setup linux users

2013-07-05 Thread Gonfi den Tschal
i'm having some difficulties following the tutorial at http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/development_saio.html 1) the user: i don't understand how it's meant, i guessed: - root for the commands - your-user-name should be swift, a user account without login privileges, created as:

Re: [Openstack] setup linux users

2013-07-05 Thread nithish B
Hi, You have to be root to get the user part right. i.e. myuser@mymachine:~$sudo su myuser@mymachine:~#cd bin myuser@mymachine:~/bin$remakerings And as for the second one, try, $sudo apt-get update $sudo apt-get install python-swiftclient If it doesn't work, download the package from

Re: [Openstack] setup linux users

2013-07-05 Thread Gonfi den Tschal
thanks, made some progress. this user had the same problem https://answers.launchpad.net/swift/+question/201810 i've now apt-get removed swift, and then installed all from git. that worked. except there are 2 failing unit tests, something about differences in expected http return codes. after

Re: [Openstack] setup linux users

2013-07-05 Thread Gonfi den Tschal
so i've updated all 13 config files (proxy-server.conf and the 12 1-4.conf) to have your-user-name as 'swift'. then i run remakerings as root as i was told, and that changes all 13 config files. wherever it said 'swift' it now is 'root', also in the places where 'swift' was hardcoded. then running