On 07/15/2014 12:18 PM, Neil Wilson wrote: > Essentially that should be the setup. Cloudinit should create the default user on startup, not the build process that creates the image. but the default user is defined in the cloud.cfg which is shipped in the cloud-init package. my understanding is that unless the metadata supplied to the instance overrides this, then this is the config that gets executed. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc