Post-installation procedure: - create a user with constant uid/gid and shared home directory on all nodes - ensure this user has rsh/ssh access to all nodes For instance, a solution could be: # groupadd -g 12384 -r -f mpi # useradd -u 12384 -g mpi -d /home/mpi -r -s /bin/bash mpi -p "" -m # mkpasswd -l 32 | passwd --stdin mpi 2>&1 > /dev/null # ssh-keygen -f /home/mpi/.ssh/id_dsa -t dsa -N "" 2>&1 > /dev/null # chown mpi:mpi /home/mpi/.ssh/id_dsa # chmod 600 /home/mpi/.ssh/id_dsa