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eucalyptus package

  1. Bug #461156
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 461156

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

I believe I've verified that using euca-run-instances base64 encodes data 2 times rather than once.
For example, with euca2ools configured to run against ec2, I do:

$ euca-run-instances --user-data "hello world" --key ec2-keypair ami-ef00e386
$ ssh ${ec2_host} 'wget -q http://169.254.169.254/latest/user-data -O -'; echo
aGVsbG8gd29ybGQ=
$ ssh $ec2_host 'wget -q http://169.254.169.254/latest/user-data -O -' |
   base64 -d; echo
hello world

This is true for both '--user-data' and '--user-data-file'.