Comment 1 for bug 1126389

I'm not sure why the Fedora guide differs form the Ubuntu guide in this regard? I've apparently never looked at it too closely.

On my development saio (which happens to be ubuntu), there is no swift user or group. Swift is installed from git, and all the configuration and starting of swift services is done manually - according to the description in the rest of the guide. For my development machine, all services run as the same user I log in with (clayg as it happens) - and so that's what I put where the configs call for <your-user-name>.

If you installed the swift rpm's according to the fedora guide you may very well want the daemons to run as the swift user and artifacts to be owned by that user.

Otherwise, you may want to skip that first step:

    yum install openstack-swift openstack-swift-proxy openstack-swift-account openstack-swift-container openstack-swift-object

And just install swift from source as described later:

http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/development_saio.html#getting-the-code-and-setting-up-test-environment

I think it is confusing, defiantly a doc bug. Why should the Fedora instructions be so different. Maybe the original author will comment on this bug, or someone can spin up a Fedora vm and update the docs as appropriate. (You wanna do it?!)