Looks like this change is what I need, but was the code supposed to not set it to ec2-user when instance_user is unset? I've always had it unset and it's always set it to ec2-user, certainly for Ubuntu images anyway, I've not tested others.
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 8:22 AM, Thomas Herve <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Heat devs, > > > > What is the status of the instance_user config option and the corollary > > OS::Nova::Server::admin_user field? Our users find it very confusing when > > Heat creates a VM with a user called ec2-user. While I've told them to > > explicitly set admin_user, the documentation claims its deprecated since > > Icehouse. Will it be removed? Along the same lines, instance_user in the > > config also claims to be deprecated and slated for removal in Kilo, it is > > also still there in master. So what's the right behavior here? Should I > > tell heat users that it's safe/recommended to set admin_user or not? > > Hi, > > It's been deprecated for a while, and will be hidden in the next release > (see https://review.openstack.org/#/c/103928/) if everything goes well. > > As an operator, you shoud set the instance_user configuration value to the > empty string, so that your users get the default user from the image. > That's the recommanded mode of operation. > > Cheers, > > -- > Thomas > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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