On May 24, 2013, at 8:57 AM, seth vidal <skvidal(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Fri, 24 May 2013 16:32:15 +0200
Juerg Haefliger <juergh(a)gmail.com> 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.
+1
-sv
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