Hi, Following: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/rpm.html Does the installation create the user elastic by default , or should i create the elastic user manually and then as user elastic execute the : sudo yum install elasticsearch ? Regards

ElaticSearch installation on Redhat with RPM

yoavb (Yoav) February 14, 2017, 9:48am 3

Hi,
Thanks for your update.

So , if i need to install with root user , why the installation guide to use : SUDO ?

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