admin is dead, long live $USER

Tim Penhey tim.penhey at canonical.com
Thu Mar 3 22:11:44 UTC 2016


Ah... it used to be there :-) At least it is on my feature branch, but I
don't think I have merged the most recent master updates that has the
work to re-work bootstrap for the new cloud credentials stuff.

Tim

On 04/03/16 10:09, Rick Harding wrote:
> If we do that we need to also make it configurable on bootstrap as an
> option.
> 
> +1 overall
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016, 4:07 PM Tim Penhey <tim.penhey at canonical.com
> <mailto:tim.penhey at canonical.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi folks,
> 
>     I was thinking that with the upcoming big changes with 2.0, we should
>     tackle a long held issue where we have the initial user called "admin".
> 
>     There was a request some time back that we should use the current user's
>     name. The reason it wasn't implemented at that time was due to logging
>     into the GUI issues. These have been resolved some time back with the
>     multiple user support that was added.
> 
>     All the server side code handles the ability to define the initial user
>     for the controller model, and we do this in all the tests, so the
>     default test user is actually called "test-admin".
> 
>     I *think* that all we need to do is change the default value we use in
>     the bootstrap command for the AdminUserName (--admin-user flag) from
>     "admin" to something we derive from the current user.
> 
>     Probably worth doing now.
> 
>     Thoughts?
> 
>     Tim
> 
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