On 12/14/2012 03:12 PM, 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.
Fedora can of course do its own thing, but Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, future RHELs, and other distros use ec2-user. This lines up with the EC2 documentation as well. I'd discourage changing it just because we can.
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.
Fair points.
- 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.
+1
- Jay