diff --git a/maas-setup.sh b/maas-setup.sh
index 4a83a6f..e1d2598 100644
--- a/maas-setup.sh
+++ b/maas-setup.sh
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@
 # Note: this tutorial has not been tested on versions prior to 20.04.
 
 # lxd / maas issue. either upgrade lxd or maas to 3.1
+
+useradd -s /bin/bash -d /home/maas -m maas
+echo "maas ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" | sudo tee /etc/sudoers.d/maas
+
+su - maas
+
 sudo snap install --channel=latest/stable lxd
 sudo snap refresh --channel=latest/stable lxd
 sudo snap install jq
@@ -67,19 +73,19 @@ maas admin tags create name=metal comment='This tag should to machines that will
 ### creating VMs for Juju controller and our "bare metal"
 
 # add a VM for the juju controller with minimal memory
-maas admin vm-host compose $VM_HOST_ID cores=8 memory=2048 architecture="amd64/generic" \
- storage="main:16(pool1)" hostname="juju-controller"
+#maas admin vm-host compose $VM_HOST_ID cores=8 memory=2048 architecture="amd64/generic" \
+# storage="main:16(pool1)" hostname="juju-controller"
 # get the system-id and tag the machine with "juju-controller"
-export JUJU_SYSID=$(maas admin machines read | jq  '.[] 
-| select(."hostname"=="juju-controller") 
-| .["system_id"]' | tr -d '"')
-maas admin tag update-nodes "juju-controller" add=$JUJU_SYSID
+#export JUJU_SYSID=$(maas admin machines read | jq  '.[] 
+#| select(."hostname"=="juju-controller") 
+#| .["system_id"]' | tr -d '"')
+#maas admin tag update-nodes "juju-controller" add=$JUJU_SYSID
 
-## Create 3 "bare metal" machines and tag them with "metal"
-for ID in 1 2 3
+# Create 3 "bare metal" machines and tag them with "metal"
+for ID in {00..49}
 do
-    maas admin vm-host compose $VM_HOST_ID cores=8 memory=8192 architecture="amd64/generic" \
-     storage="main:25(pool1),ceph:100(pool1)" hostname="metal-${ID}"
+    maas admin vm-host compose $VM_HOST_ID cores=1 memory=1024 architecture="amd64/generic" \
+     storage="main:25(pool1)" hostname="metal-${ID}"
 	SYSID=$(maas admin machines read | jq -r --arg MACHINE "metal-${ID}" '.[] 
     | select(."hostname"==$MACHINE) 
     | .["system_id"]' | tr -d '"')