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@@ -22,3 +22,13 @@ Durable
Distributed by Design
Kafka has a modern cluster-centric design that offers
strong durability and fault-tolerance guarantees.
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+
+Groupname and username
+
+You must have the 'kafka' group and user to run this script,
+for example:
+
+ groupadd -g 323 kafka
+ useradd -u 323 -g 323 -c "Apache Kafka user" -d /var/lib/kafka \
+ -s /bin/sh kafka