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Bug #15358

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UserData default is insecure

Added by Chris Edester almost 8 years ago. Updated almost 6 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
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Category:
Templates
Target version:
Difficulty:
trivial
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Description

The Cloud init template creates an admin account with a password, which is against standard best practices in cloud providers.
Read the section under passwd: http://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/examples.html#including-users-and-groups
Remember user data can be seen by anyone, for example EC2 stores this with the instance for later editing/reference.

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