Hey, so in order to get it to work; I was doing the mistake of creating the pwdless keygen in root@sandbox.hortonworks.com but I was suppose to be in oozie host in order to get it to work. so to go into the steps sudo su - oozie ssh-keygen -t rsa (for pwdless) just press enter twice then ssh-copy-id 'user'@'ipAddress' once that is done -- test it "ssh 'user'@ipAddress' " **don't remember if it asked for a password for user@ipAddress after ssh-copy-id or when you first connect either way it should be the password you have for the sandbox.** in case that didn't work, I did add that property you mention @Kuldeep Kulkarni. ... View more