On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Jake G. <dj_dark_junglist at yahoo.com> wrote: > I am following the part on how to set up cloud-init from the below guide, > but I was wondering how to change the user? > I do not have the default ec2-user on my instance image. Do I just create > this user in the instance? What permissions do I give the user? About half way down this page (http://hackstack.org/x/blog/2013/04/25/a-centos-6-image-for-openstack/) is a link to a centos 6 kickstart file that configures cloud-init during the kickstart %POST phase to behave similar to how it works on Ubuntu images by default: create a 'centos' user with sudo permissions to root. dt -- Dean Troyer dtroyer at gmail.com