to ec2-user or not to ec2-user?

[jvlcek]

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:
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> 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?
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> Other points:
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>  - 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.
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>

I'd suggests "cloud-user".