GoogleCloudPlatform/solutions-google-compute-engine-cluster-for-hadoop — pull request #2 by thinkjson (2013-05-03 18:41:10+00:00)
Title: Hard code ssh user so compute_cluster_for_hadoop.py can be run as root

Running the code as is uses the current local user as the ssh username for the remote nodes. This makes it impossible to run the code as root. The following code hard-codes the remote ssh user, so it doesn't depend on the local username.