How to set ssh password on nodes?

[mindfield]

Tried using pelican-1.8(amd64) on vmware frontend and nodes. After I ran 'pelican_setup', I was now required to give the 'user@10.11.12.2' ssh password? I dont know what to give since I didnt set any user password on the nodes,yet. Is there a step I have missed?
Please take note that i'm trying to use the nodes thru PXE boot-up and that the nodes are using 'bridged' networking thru vmware.

[Michael Creel]

If you see that, it probably means that the compute nodes have not successfully NFS mounted the /home/user directory, which is exported from the frontend. In principle, the password for the nodes is the same as the password for the frontend, but for this to work, the nodes need to have mounted the NFS home dir. If that fails, then the password should be "live", I think.

The main question is why the compute nodes are not successfully importing the home dir. Are you using a ramdisk (default) for the home dir, or are you trying to use a virtual hard disk?

[mindfield]

Ok,I'd try using ramdisk. Cause I thought using other than ramdisk would enable me to save my settings at the cluster. Because I do not want to do all my preliminary settings again for the cluster to work everytime I boot it up.

[Michael Creel]

You certainly can use a virtual hard disk partition, it just needs to be formatted as ext2 or ext3 before you try to use it. I recommend doing this, if you intend to do serious work. I am guessing that you did not format the partition using one of these formats, before trying to use it.