[ec2-beta] /home on EBS and the ubuntu user

[Steven Marcus]

Hello all!

My co has been using the alestic images since September08 and they've been
great.
Given that there are now "official" AMIs I thought I'd look at switching.

The first issue for us in switching is that I can't simply mount an EBS
volume with /home as we have been doing.
This is because the official AMIs disable root and require login via the
ubuntu user.
The ubuntu user is scripted on instance start to enable ssh via
/home/ubuntu/.ssh/authorized_keys -- so we can't simply create a "static"
ubuntu user in our /home on EBS.

Is keeping /home on EBS a reasonable thing to do with the official AMIs, and
if so, how?
It seems that mounting /home while logged in as anything other than root is
not a good idea.

Thanks in advance!
S
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