to ec2-user or not to ec2-user?
Itamar Reis Peixoto
itamar at ispbrasil.com.br
Fri Dec 14 20:29:26 UTC 2012
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org> 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.
>
> 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.
> - 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.
I don't like that too, but I think we could leave as is for now
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Itamar Reis Peixoto
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