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Chapter 4. Installing the Undercloud

The first step to creating your Red Hat OpenStack Platform environment is to install the director on the Undercloud system. This involves a few prerequisite steps to enable the necessary subscriptions and repositories.

4.1. Creating a Director Installation User
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The director installation process requires a non-root user to execute commands. Use the following commands to create the user named stack and set a password: 
[root@director ~]# useradd stack
[root@director ~]# passwd stack  # specify a password
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Disable password requirements for this user when using sudo: 
[root@director ~]# echo "stack ALL=(root) NOPASSWD:ALL" | tee -a /etc/sudoers.d/stack
[root@director ~]# chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers.d/stack
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Switch to the new stack user: 
[root@director ~]# su - stack
[stack@director ~]$
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Continue the director installation as the stack user.
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