Password problem when installing elijah-provisioning

[oldmanw]

I am a new learner of Open Edge Computing and recently I am trying to install the elijah-provisioning with the instruction in https://github.com/cmusatyalab/elijah-provisioning. However, when I excute the command
$ fab install (Type your Ubuntu account password when it is asked)
and type the password of 'root', it asked me to type the password again.

It seems the password is wrong but I have changed the password of 'root' by the command
$ sudo passwd
By the way, the password I changed is same as the one of my account 'oldmanw', so I think I can't type the wrong password.
I am really confused, hope you can help me. And I am sorry for my bad English.

Best regards!

[teiszler]

@oldmanw,

Sorry for the delay in responding. The fabric script for the elijah-provisioning project has a quirk where it is designed to be run as a local user, so it doesn't work correctly if you execute it as root. Try running the fabric script as oldmanw and you shouldn't be prompted for any passwords.

Regards,
Tom