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-rw-r--r--nixos/maintainers/scripts/azure-new/README.md7
-rw-r--r--nixos/maintainers/scripts/azure-new/examples/basic/system.nix3
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diff --git a/nixos/maintainers/scripts/azure-new/README.md b/nixos/maintainers/scripts/azure-new/README.md
index ee1fc682534c..20e81c44ce5d 100644
--- a/nixos/maintainers/scripts/azure-new/README.md
+++ b/nixos/maintainers/scripts/azure-new/README.md
@@ -33,3 +33,10 @@ img="/subscriptions/.../..." # use output from last command
...
=> booted
```
+
+## Future Work
+
+1. If the user specifies a hard-coded user, then the agent could be removed.
+ Probably has security benefits; definitely has closure-size benefits.
+ (It's likely the VM will need to be booted with a special flag. See:
+ https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/issues/12775 for details.)
diff --git a/nixos/maintainers/scripts/azure-new/examples/basic/system.nix b/nixos/maintainers/scripts/azure-new/examples/basic/system.nix
index 5f98216d183d..855bd3bab719 100644
--- a/nixos/maintainers/scripts/azure-new/examples/basic/system.nix
+++ b/nixos/maintainers/scripts/azure-new/examples/basic/system.nix
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ in
"${modulesPath}/virtualisation/azure-image.nix"
];
+ ## NOTE: This is just an example of how to hard-code a user.
+ ## The normal Azure agent IS included and DOES provision a user based
+ ## on the information passed at VM creation time.
users.users."${username}" = {
isNormalUser = true;
home = "/home/${username}";