On Fri, 24 May 2013 16:32:15 +0200
Juerg Haefliger <juergh(a)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.
-sv