[CentOS-devel] Cloud image default login

Karanbir Singh

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Tue Jul 15 11:11:00 UTC 2014


On 07/14/2014 05:14 PM, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> As further data points, Debian on AWS EC2 uses the 'admin' username, and
> all Google-supported images on Google Compute Engine (including CentOS)
> don't have a default account at all, but rather use integrated SSH key
> management via our metadata server and an open source daemon we install
> into the guest.

I really like this setup, its possible to implement with cloud-init and
some user-metadata injection at instantiation time, but no where as
simple as it is with the gce tools.

For now, I'm going with 'centos'@ logins, lets see if we can work
through that a bit.


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