Amazon recommends using ec2-user (with passwordless sudo) for EC2 images. That's what Fedora has been doing. Do we want to continue this? Arguments: A. It doesn't really provide any added security, but does add complication. Additionally, normal "don't run as root" advice is less important since cloud instances should be ephemeral and recreatable. B. But, consistency. What's our SIG consensus here? Other points: - We're making images for EC2 and for other cloud systems as well. 'ec2-user' seems particularly silly on, say, OpenStack. - We could use ec2-user and something else (including just root) on the generic images. - We should decide this really fast because it's already past the last minute; default is to just stay with ec2-user for F18 and revisit for F19. -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
