Description
You must have privileges to create sybolic links, prior to installing HDP for Windows. If you attempt to install HDP for Windows without symbolic link creation privileges, your MSI installation fails with the following error:
CREATE-USER: Setting password for hadoop CREATE-USER: Granting SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege CREATE-USER: <installation_package_path> -u WIN2012\hadoop +r SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege CREATE-USER FAILURE: Failed to grant SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege HDP FAILURE: Failed to create Hadoop user
Workaround
To work around this issue, ensure that symbolic link creation privileges have been
granted to the users
group, in advance of performing your
installation.
If granting symbolic link privileges to the users
group conflicts
with your company's security policies, you can create the hadoop user manually, in advance
of your installation.