to ec2-user or not to ec2-user?

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On 14.12.2012 20:12, 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.
>
> 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.

In one of my EL6 images for Openstack I've added an ec2-user with same 
uid,gid and homedir as root, works fine, not sure if it's up to anyone 
else's standards, though.

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