Default cloud user name

[Krishna Raman]

On May 24, 2013, at 8:57 AM, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 24 May 2013 16:32:15 +0200
> Juerg Haefliger <juergh at 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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