[CentOS-devel] cloud-init default username

Tue Jul 28 17:06:52 UTC 2020
James Cassell <fedoraproject at cyberpear.com>

On Tue, Jul 28, 2020, at 1:00 PM, aleksander.baranowski via CentOS-devel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> CentOS 7 has cloud-init with default username set to `centos`. The
> CentOS 8 uses standard `cloud-user`. The patch responsible for change is
> https://git.centos.org/rpms/cloud-init/blob/c7/f/SOURCES/cloud-init-centos-user.patch
> There is no similar patch in
> https://git.centos.org/rpms/cloud-init/blob/c8/f/SOURCES
> 
> Should it be fixed or is it expected behavior? It's quite important for
> me, because if it changes in the future some of our docs will have to be
> updated.
> 

cloud-user is what RHEL qcow images use, so that makes sense to me.

V/r,
James Cassell