[cs615asa] How to get ec2 default username

[Yifang Yuan]

Why don’t you specify the AMI of system when you create instance? If you choose ubuntu, username is always ubuntu


> On May 17, 2018, at 05:21, Zhengkai Wei <zwei11 at stevens.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is anyone know elegant way to get ec2 default username?
> 
> I find two way to get username one way is use ‘root' as username and use 'sudo ssh’, But I’m not sure in real environment we can using sudo or not.
> 
> Another way is try every possible. I don’t think that is a good idea.
> 
> Any one know any better way?
> 
> I don’t know the user setting of EC2_BACKUP_FLAGS_AWS that means I don’t know the operation system I need backup on.
> 
> The different system need use different username to login ex. ec2_user ,ubuntu, root …
> 
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