[ubuntu-cloud] [ec2ubuntu] Re: [UDS] Ubuntu Cloud Images Round-table Pre-discussion

[Scott Moser]

On Fri, 4 May 2012, Yaron Sheffer wrote:

> Hi Scott,
>
> sorry of this sounded like I'm disparaging the security of these images. This
> was absolutely NOT my intention. My point is, for security appliances user
> access into the instance may be disabled, even if they're using the standard
> SSH keys. So this solution would be one more access method (a nicer word than
> "backdoor", right :-) that would need to be blocked as part of hardening the
> instance/image.

I was not offended. Thanks for bringing it up.
We'll make sure that it can be disabled.