After installing rabbitmq on mac (lion), the document says its context user is named "rabbitmq". When trying to set up the named "rabbitmq" user through the OS’s preference panel’s account menu, it tells me that the account is already established, can’t be created duplicatedly.
But when checking /Users/ directory, I can’t find the rabbitmq path. In addition, when check /etc/passwd configure file using command of "cat /etc/passwd |grep rabbitmq". But the response is blank.
Could you tell me where is rabbitmq user? where to place .erlang.cookie file, and where to place '.erlang' file.
If possible, please tell me which source code file of rabbitmq-server project is responsible for creating the context user, I really want to read it.
I installed rabbitmq through homebrew, and ran sudo rabbitmq-server. The home directory was listed in the output:
It looks like the home directory is set based on the user running rabbitmq. Try putting your cookie and .erlang files in your home directory and see if that works.