On 2013-05-24 7:57, seth vidal wrote:
On Fri, 24 May 2013 16:32:15 +0200
Juerg Haefliger <juergh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all,
Per Matt's request, I'm starting a new thread about the default user
name for Fedora cloud images. Currently it's 'ec2-user' which I don't
really like. OK, coming from the OpenStack-side of the cloud I might
be a little biased :-) Nevertheless, I think we want to achieve an end
goal of a single image that can be used in different cloud
environments rather than having different images for the different
environments. As such, the user name needs to be cloud/service
provider independent. Following the lead of Ubuntu and Debian I
propose to use 'fedora' as the default user name for F19 and going
forward.
Let the popularity contest begin...
How about we do-away with the 'faux user which is and is not root even
though they are a trivial unpassworded sudo away' security theater that
amazon and ubuntu have been peddling for years now.
I mean seriously - it's meaningless - let's stop pretending.
Yup. We went with ec2-user because that's what EC2 wanted people to
standardize on at the time and that was the only cloud that mattered.
If we're going to change it to something else today that's fine, but we
should really just go with root. The name is well-understood and
non-political, we aren't enabling password auth, it's trivial to make an
instance add a non-root user at boot time when one is really needed, and
frankly, I'm tired of playing a reversed version of "sudo says" every
time I want to log into an instance. Just cut to the chase and use root
already.
--
Garrett Holmstrom
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