On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:50:47PM -0400, Scott Moser wrote: > On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote: > > > > How is this not a back door in an Ubuntu delivery? > > > > This is an experiment we're attempting to allow people to play with a > > sandbox for less than an hour, with the backend being open sourced and > > available for anyone to read, and with a FAQ about the raised issue in > > place even before anyone brought it up. If anything, that's an > > obvious front door with a welcome sign. > > Its no different than if I (Scott) ran an ec2 instance for you and said > "Here, try it out". Because I launched it, I launched with my keys (I > always launch my instances with my keys). I imported your keys so you > could get at it. I told you that you could delete my keys and I'd be out > for good. > > I'm willing to accept that, because we don't even have the recovery code > in place, that we should have launched without ssh keys. > > We're now launching instances on http://10.cloud.ubuntu.com without keys > that canonical has access to.
Thanks, Scott! > I do think we're over-reacting a bit here. I think the strength of the Ubuntu is its community, with a diversity of viewpoints. I'm glad you offered this great feature, glad community members tried it out and gave feedback from their perspectives, and glad you listened! As I think about using awstrial myself to offer pre-configured systems to colleagues, I apprciate that you didn't remove the functionality to define the 'INSTANCE_KEY_NAME' we've been discussing in settings.py: https://bugs.launchpad.net/awstrial/+bug/659195 I wonder if the functionality is in there to restrict usage to members of a particular launchpad group. That would make it usable for a large variety of team development situations! I see that possibility mentioned in the TODO, so I'm thinking more about how to use it now :) http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~awstrial-dev/awstrial/trunk/files Cheers! Neal McBurnett http://neal.mcburnett.org/ -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
