On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Jay Greguske
<jgregusk@redhat.com> 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.
Well, not exactly, ubuntu lucid in aws uses 'ubuntu', both 'cloud-user' or even 'fedora would be generic enough... in my opinion.
> 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.
> - 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
- Jay