cloud-init update

jvlcek jvlcek at redhat.com
Mon Nov 19 16:08:25 UTC 2012


On 11/16/2012 11:09 AM, Tomas Karasek wrote:
> > I guess you were not using default cfg, can you share it?
>
> we use root as a default user and the only modification I did was
> sed -i 's|^disable_root: 1|disable_root: 0|' /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg
>
> I refer to
>
> commit bbb042f5ddb547724f849d3d8e30db23db333a7a
> Author: Alan Pevec <apevec at redhat.com <mailto:apevec at redhat.com>>
> Date:   Wed Nov 14 23:08:25 2012 +0100
>
>     Update to 0.7.1
>
> of https://github.com/apevec/cloud-init-el6.git
>
> I'll check the new cfg.
>
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Alan Pevec <apevec at gmail.com
> <mailto:apevec at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     > Hey Alan, I tested 0.7.1 rpm build on SLC6 (EL6) built from
>     > https://github.com/apevec/cloud-init-el6.git
>     > and it's working alright. It's finally downloading the public keys.
>
>     I guess you were not using default cfg, can you share it?
>     Vitaly and JoeV found issues with default cfg, so I've updated along
>     with two minor rhel-specific adjustments:
>
>     * Fri Nov 16 2012 Alan Pevec <apevec at redhat.com
>     <mailto:apevec at redhat.com>> 0.7.1-2
>     - define default user (Joe VLcek)
>     - set distro to rhel in default config
>     - adjust logger call for older util-linux
>
>     New scratch build is
>     http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/openstack/cloud-init/epel-6/cloud-init-0.7.1-2.el6.noarch.rpm
>
>     Cheers,
>     Alan
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Thank you Tomas,

Having the default action be to use the root user for RHEL
raises security issues. So we specify a default user and
leave the disable_root: 1.

Joe


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