User dbadmin is unknown using EC2 AMI ami-e7b3b38e

Neil_1

I've used the AMI linked to from https://my.vertica.com/download-community-edition/ to launch an AMI (https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-east-1#launchAmi=ami-e7b3b38e)

Following the guide that is also linked to from that page (https://my.vertica.com/docs/7.0.x/PDF/HP_Vertica_7.0.x_Vertica_AWS.pdf), I expected to find a dbadmin user:

When HP Vertica was installed for you, an HP Vertica databaseadministrator was created, dbadmin. You can use this pre-created dbadmin user to create and
start a database. 

However when I attempt to su as the user this happens:

[root@ip-XX-XXX-XXX-XX /]# su dbadmin
su: user dbadmin does not exist

And Attempting to sudo gives this:

[root@ip-XX-XXX-XXX-XX /]# sudo -u dbadmin /opt/vertica/bin/admintools
sudo: unknown user: dbadmin

The list of users is (cat /etc/passwd) :

root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bashbin:x:1:1:bin:/bin:/sbin/nologin
daemon:x:2:2:daemon:/sbin:/sbin/nologin
adm:x:3:4:adm:/var/adm:/sbin/nologin
lp:x:4:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:/sbin/nologin
sync:x:5:0:sync:/sbin:/bin/sync
shutdown:x:6:0:shutdown:/sbin:/sbin/shutdown
halt:x:7:0:halt:/sbin:/sbin/halt
mail:x:8:12:mail:/var/spool/mail:/sbin/nologin
uucp:x:10:14:uucp:/var/spool/uucp:/sbin/nologin
operator:x:11:0:operator:/root:/sbin/nologin
games:x:12:100:games:/usr/games:/sbin/nologin
gopher:x:13:30:gopher:/var/gopher:/sbin/nologin
ftp:x:14:50:FTP User:/var/ftp:/sbin/nologin
nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/:/sbin/nologin
dbus:x:81:81:System message bus:/:/sbin/nologin
vcsa:x:69:69:virtual console memory owner:/dev:/sbin/nologin
rpc:x:32:32:Rpcbind Daemon:/var/cache/rpcbind:/sbin/nologin
abrt:x:173:173::/etc/abrt:/sbin/nologin
saslauth:x:499:76:"Saslauthd user":/var/empty/saslauth:/sbin/nologin
postfix:x:89:89::/var/spool/postfix:/sbin/nologin
qpidd:x:498:499:Owner of Qpidd Daemons:/var/lib/qpidd:/sbin/nologin
haldaemon:x:68:68:HAL daemon:/:/sbin/nologin
ntp:x:38:38::/etc/ntp:/sbin/nologin
rpcuser:x:29:29:RPC Service User:/var/lib/nfs:/sbin/nologin
nfsnobody:x:65534:65534:Anonymous NFS User:/var/lib/nfs:/sbin/nologin
sshd:x:74:74:Privilege-separated SSH:/var/empty/sshd:/sbin/nologin
tcpdump:x:72:72::/:/sbin/nologin
oprofile:x:16:16:Special user account to be used by OProfile:/home/oprofile:/sbin/nologin

Advice appreciated!

Thanks

Kris_Peeters

Vertica isn't installed by default on the AMI, although the Installer files are there. If you want to run it on a single node, do this:

/opt/vertica/sbin/install_vertica --dba-user-password-disabled --point-to-point -s localhost
su dbadmin
adminTools  

and accept their EULA etc...

See https://my.vertica.com/docs/6.1.x/HTML/index.htm#20191.htm