I've just installed Elasticsearch 1.4.2 using the RHEL RPM. I noticed that it didn't create a new user "elasticsearch" nor did it create a new group "elasticsearch". Nor are any of the directories I'd expect the default user to be able to read and write owned by anything other than root. This …

Elasticsearch RPM doesn't create ES_USER nor ES_GROUP defaults?

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Elasticsearch RPM doesn't create ES_USER nor ES_GROUP defaults?