On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Jay Greguske <jgregusk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/14/2012 03:12 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: >> 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. > > Fedora can of course do its own thing, but Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, future > RHELs, and other distros use ec2-user. This lines up with the EC2 > documentation as well. I'd discourage changing it just because we can. Some historical info: since our first cloud image targeted EC2, we looked at the EC2 documentation and other distros, most of which tended toward ec2-user, so we went with that. >> 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. > > Fair points. If we end up with One Image to Rule Them All at some point, I think using something more generic is fair. We could probably get pretty close with some fine-tuning. Just not for F18; I suspect we're a little late for that kind of churn. >> - 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. >> > > +1 +1. This is an excellent time to discuss plans for F19 images, not so much F18 images. -- Garrett Holmstrom _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
