I finally got root access to one of the nodes which incredibly helped me to get most of my software installed. But now, for the first time, I got into issues for actually being root :-))We recommend running this script as a designated SMRT Analysis user(e.g. smrtanalysis) who will own all smrtpipe jobs and daemon processes.  Current user is 'root' (primary group: root)Installing as 'root' is not currently supportedSwitch to the desired user and restart the install.Aborting installation...I therefore tried to create new user, but I don't have enough privileges to do that:/usr/local/bin$ sudo adduser smrtanalysisAdding user `smrtanalysis' ...Adding new group `smrtanalysis' (1001) ...Adding new user `smrtanalysis' (1001) with group `smrtanalysis' ...Creating home directory `/home/smrtanalysis' ...Stopped: Couldn't create home directory `/home/smrtanalysis': Permission denied.Removing directory `/home/smrtanalysis' ...Removing user `smrtanalysis' ...Removing group `smrtanalysis' ...groupdel: group 'smrtanalysis' does not existadduser: `groupdel smrtanalysis' returned error code 6. Exiting.Can I somehow use my own user - which is root - to install this software? How?
Installing as 'root' is not currently supported - what should I do?
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If you (as root) don't have permission to create /home/smrtanalysis, it probably means that /home is served from some other system on which you don't have root access.Can you ask the administrator of that system to create the smrtanalysis account for you?If not, you can probably use the adduser --home option to put the new account's home directory somewhere else; pick a location where you do have permission to create a directory (and that has enough available disk space). Assuming you have a non-root account on the system, a subdirectory of that account's home directory might be a good place.But you should probably talk to your system administrator (presumably the person from whom you finally got root access) about the best way to do this.