admin is dead, long live $USER

[Tim Penhey]

Ah yeah... it is mostly coming back to me now.

I actually have a branch lying around that does most of this.

Perhaps I should look at it again :-)

Tim

On 04/03/16 20:08, Ian Booth wrote:
> Hey Tim
> 
> The new bootstrap UX has not removed any --admin-user flag.
> I can see that the server jujud bootstrap command has an --admin-user argument
> but it appears this is never set anywhere in the cloud init scripts. Or not that
> I can see. I've checked older version of the relevant files and can't see where
> we've ever used this.
> 
> So maybe we have a capability to bootstrap the controller agent with a specified
> admin-user but have not hooked it up yet?
> 
> On 04/03/16 08:11, Tim Penhey wrote:
>> 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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