Why attempting to generate ssh key during Hadoop installation you might get an error saying " Saving the key failed : cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys". If you follow the following few simple steps you will bypass that error. Generate and output key to id_rsa >ssh-keygen -t rsa -P '' -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa Then authorize the key [...]The post Hadoop installation: Saving the key failed error appeared first on Database and BI blog.