On Mon, 24 Sep 2012, Neil Wilson wrote: > 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?
I suppose this is probably for historical reasons. For all versions of our cloud images (hardy+), there was a 'netdev' user in which the 'ubuntu' was present (it is added by 'vmbuilder'). 'netdev' is also present in 2 ubuntu server installations i have (admittedly likely done via the network installer). It is related to network-manager, clearly not important for server, but still there nonetheless (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Privileges) So its not going to fail in most cases. I agree that it seems un-necessary, but I'd rather leave it as is then change the default groups that the user is in. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to cloud-init in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1054035 Title: Adding default user fails due to lack of 'netdev' group To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/+bug/1054035/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
