Since Amazon provides NTP servers within their network, this should
be far superior to using the default NTP pools; and since the service
is provided by Amazon there's very little risk in enabling it by
default. (If someone is able to compromise Amazon's NTP servers and
exploit them to attack EC2 instances, they would almost certainly be
able to compromise EC2 instances even without ntpd running...)
MFC after: 1 week
Relnotes: EC2 instances now keep their clocks synchronized using
the Amazon Time Sync Service (aka. NTP).
EC2 instances are normally launched with an SSH public key specified,
which is then used for logging in (by default, as 'ec2-user'). Having
ChallengeResponseAuthentication enabled (as FreeBSD's default sshd_config
does) has no functional effect in a new EC2 instance, since you can't log
in using a password until a password has been set -- but having this
enabled results in alerts from automated scanning tools which can detect
that sshd advertises support for keyboard-interactive logins (since they
can't detect that accounts have no password set).
EC2 users who want to use passwords to log in to their instances will need
to set 'ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes' in FreeBSD 12.0 and later.
Discussed with: gjb, gtetlow, emaste, des
Requested by: Amazon
X-MFC: No
Relnotes: ChallengeResponseAuthentication is turned off by default in
Amazon EC2 AMIs.
copied from the build host. It is renamed to /etc/resolv.conf.bak
on boot, so never used anyway.
Noticed by: peter
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
immediately available on instances which are running without internet
access (or which can't rely on firstboot_pkgs to install it for some
other reason).
Note that this agent is not enabled by default; to enable it, add
amazon_ssm_agent_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf, e.g., by placing the lines
>>/etc/rc.conf
amazon_ssm_agent_enable="YES"
into the EC2 user-data. In addition to being enabled, the agent requires
keys to be provided via IAM Roles; users are encouraged to be very careful
in using this functionality due to the inherent vulnerability in the idea
of providing credentials via a service accessible to any process which can
open an HTTP connection.
Requested by: Amazon
No objection from: re@
Relnotes: FreeBSD/EC2 AMIs now include the Amazon EC2 Systems Manager
(SSM) Agent.
install to prepare an AMI image. This can be used to create a ZFS AMI disk
image using a virtual machine.
Change ec2.conf to use the pkg tool from a chroot rather than trying to
bootstrap it and fail from the livecd readonly filesystem.
Reviewed by: gjb
running on EC2. Due to improvements in EC2, the performance penalty which
was present on some EC2 instances no longer exists, and enabling this
feature now consistently yields ~20% higher throughput with equal or lower
latency.
Reverts: r286063
Approved by: re (gjb)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Relnotes: Improved disk throughput on EC2
issues on some EC2 instance types. Users may want to experiment with
removing this from loader.conf and measuring the performance impact on
the EC2 instances they are using.
