Create a service user - metadatacenter-attic/cedar-docs GitHub Wiki

Depending on whether you are setting up your environment for active development or testing/demo/production purposes, you may or may not create a dedicated service user for the project.

The below guide will assume that if you are following the OS X path, you are setting up a development environment, and you will run all the services under your own user.

If you follow the RHEL 6.6 path, the creation of a dedicated cedar service user is implied.