<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>I got the user correct now I am wondering why this is nessasary for my environment.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>I am not using Amazon EC2 services so why would I need to get metadata from there API?</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Can someone explain?</div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size:
12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Scott Moser <smoser@ubuntu.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Dean Troyer <dtroyer@gmail.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "openstack@lists.launchpad.net" <openstack@lists.launchpad.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, July 25, 2013 12:23 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Openstack] Image prep. cloud-init user configuration help.<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>On Tue, 23 Jul 2013, Dean Troyer wrote:<br><br>> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Jake G. <<a ymailto="mailto:dj_dark_junglist@yahoo.com" href="mailto:dj_dark_junglist@yahoo.com">dj_dark_junglist@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>>
> I am following the part on how to set up cloud-init from the below guide,<br>> > but I was wondering how to change the user?<br>> > I do not have the default ec2-user on my instance image. Do I just create<br>> > this user in the instance? What permissions do I give the user?<br>><br>> About half way down this page<br>> (<a href="http://hackstack.org/x/blog/2013/04/25/a-centos-6-image-for-openstack/" target="_blank">http://hackstack.org/x/blog/2013/04/25/a-centos-6-image-for-openstack/</a>)<br>> is a link to a centos 6 kickstart file that configures cloud-init<br>> during the kickstart %POST phase to behave similar to how it works on<br>> Ubuntu images by default: create a 'centos' user with sudo permissions<br>> to root.<br><br>Josh was right, though.<br>Recent versions of cloud-init will create the user if it is not there.<br>If the user is present, it will not modify
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