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eucalyptus package

  1. Bug #461156
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 461156

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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote : Re: User data is not base64 decoded before being presented to the instance

Confirming this:
$ printf "%s\n%s\n" '#!/bin/sh' 'echo hello world" > /tmp/user-data.sh
$ euca-run-instances -k mykey --user-data-file /tmp/user-data.sh emi-220011A6 -t m1.small
$ euca-describe-instances
RESERVATION r-342805FE admin default
INSTANCE i-3BB70743 emi-220011A6 192.168.1.192 172.19.1.2 running mykey 0 m1.small 2009-10-26T15:21:07.472Z sm-zone-1a eki-3EE316B1 eri-225F1633
$ ssh -i mykey.priv ubuntu@192.168.1.192 'wget -q http://169.254.169.254/latest/user-data -O -'; echo
IyEvYmluL3NoCmVjaG8gaGVsbG8gd29ybGQK

The above should show plaintext.
$ dpkg-query --show "euca*"
euca2ools 1.0+bzr20091007-0ubuntu1
eucalyptus-cc 1.6~bzr931-0ubuntu7
eucalyptus-cloud 1.6~bzr931-0ubuntu7
eucalyptus-common 1.6~bzr931-0ubuntu7
eucalyptus-gl 1.6~bzr931-0ubuntu7
eucalyptus-java-common 1.6~bzr931-0ubuntu7
eucalyptus-javadeps
eucalyptus-sc 1.6~bzr931-0ubuntu7
eucalyptus-walrus 1.6~bzr931-0ubuntu7