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cloud-init package

  1. Bug #1054035
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 1054035

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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote : Re: [Bug 1054035] Re: Adding default user fails due to lack of 'netdev' group

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.