> I think that it is important to underline that the account is privileded. How about 'Administrator' ? Seriously. It's a bit long to type. "admin"? I can change that in the bootstrapper pretty quickly. I think this could be a username pretty much every cloud provider and distribution could agree on.
Anders On 9 November 2012 00:39, Charles Plessy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > Le Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 10:38:07AM +0000, Bromberger, James a écrit : > > > > 1) SSH Username: 'debian' is an obvious choice. Ec2-user is the other. > Time > > for an informal vote here? > > I think that it is important to underline that the account is privileded. > How about 'Administrator' ? Seriously. > > > 3) cloud-init - yes, but it's going to be some years for stable/main. > Charles > > - your thoughts? > > Help ! http://lists.debian.org/debian-cloud/2012/11/msg00003.html > > > 4) CLI tools - not initially here. There's lots to discuss with regards > to > > packages of it; who should maintain it, what is the copyright, and where > > should the repo be. I would love to, but I don't have answers for those > > questions right now. > > They are non-free, so I think that we should not have them by default. > Packaging them in the non-free section if the license allows would be a > good > compromise. Then, scripts ą la cloud-init could be turned on to enable > auto-updates for the users who want to. > > We also have the euca2ools, which do not implement all the API (no > '--instance-initiated-shutdown-behavior terminate' yet, for instance), but > they > are Free and patches may be welcome. > https://github.com/eucalyptus/euca2ools > > > 9) It was not a Debian security issue - but an image generation that > left a > > X509 key visible in the block device. > > That is one of the reasons why I like my approach with Debian Installer: 1) > install Debian on a EBS volume in the cloud and 2) bless that volume from > outside the cloud, so that no password or private key transits on the > installer > or installed system. > > Have a nice day, > > -- > Charles Plessy > Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > >
