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The Regatta cluster requires a dedicated user on each of the servers participating in the cluster. The Regatta user must be defined as follows:
  1. Username: regatta
  2. Permissions: ownership of the block storage devices on the server
The Regatta installation (RPMs) will create a user named regatta upon deployment. Deciding which storage devices will be designated for the database does require manual action by the system administrator.

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User creation

If you would like to create the regatta user on all servers manually prior to installation, you may do so. In this case, the Regatta RPM will use the Regatta user created by you. To create a Regatta user with device access, run the following command: For example: 
sudo useradd -m -d /home/regatta -s /bin/bash regatta
Verify that the user was created successfully: 
getent passwd regatta

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Storage permission

A system administrator (or any user with sudo permission) will be required to perform the chown command on the storage devices dedicated to the Regatta database to grant the regatta user read and write access to these drives. For example: 
sudo chown regatta:regatta /dev/<device> # for example: /dev/nvme0n1
The devices dedicated to the Regatta database do not require any filesystem. Regatta works optimally by utilizing raw devices.