Default cloud user name

Collins, Robert (HPCS) rbtcollins at hp.com
Fri May 24 18:34:59 UTC 2013


Fair enough: current Ubuntu doesn't provide a default user at all: either cloud-init makes it, or it doesn't exist.

-Rob

Robert Collins <rbtcollins at hp.com>
Distinguished Technologist
HP Cloud Services

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From: cloud-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org [cloud-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] on behalf of Matthew Miller [mattdm at fedoraproject.org]
Sent: Saturday, 25 May 2013 05:59
To: Fedora Cloud SIG
Subject: Re: Default cloud user name

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 05:45:42PM +0000, Collins, Robert (HPCS) wrote:
> Re: staying as ec2-user for EC2 images : that will be *inconsistent* with
> other distros. I'm pretty sure that Ubuntu uses 'ubuntu' for their EC2
> images - or has the username driven by cloud metadata.

Note that we also use cloud-init so the username can be driven by
cloud metadata. The question is what to use as the default when that's not
provided.



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