On 01/27/2014 03:20 PM, Juerg Haefliger wrote: > I also just realized the sudo doesn't work for the cloud-user. It asks > for a password. Need to dig around some more. I am still quite keen to have root as the default user to login as.. Can we have a middle ground where people are able to establsih the requirement for the cloud-user in the metadata for the instance and let cloud-init then do the adduser + append to sudoers ? otherwise, it just falls back to using the root user and injecting key there. Regards -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc