Default cloud user name

[Garrett Holmstrom]

On 2013-05-24 7:57, seth vidal 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.

Yup.  We went with ec2-user because that's what EC2 wanted people to 
standardize on at the time and that was the only cloud that mattered. 
If we're going to change it to something else today that's fine, but we 
should really just go with root.  The name is well-understood and 
non-political, we aren't enabling password auth, it's trivial to make an 
instance add a non-root user at boot time when one is really needed, and 
frankly, I'm tired of playing a reversed version of "sudo says" every 
time I want to log into an instance.  Just cut to the chase and use root 
already.

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Garrett Holmstrom