[Bug 1054035] Re: Adding default user fails due to lack of 'netdev' group

[Neil Wilson]

Why are you creating a default user in the 'netdev' group by default
when the standard Ubuntu server installation doesn't appear to create
that group?

That doesn't make any sense. It's always going to fail.

On 24 September 2012 16:24, Scott Moser <smoser at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand.
> The way to handle this in cloud-init now is just to be more explicit with your user-data or config (/etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d).
>
> #cloud-config
> groups:
>  - foogroup
> users:
>  - name: ubuntu
>    primary-group: foogroup
>
> Then you'll get what you asked for.
> In the past if the user 'ubuntu' did not exist, it would not be created at all.
> Now, if no 'users' item is specified in config, then it expects that the default user can be created.
>
> So, since that default user cannot be created, it is at least arguable
> that the right path is to fail.  Creating groups not explicitly
> requested by the user would seem wrong.
>
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