diff --git a/SOURCES/cloud-init-centos-user.patch b/SOURCES/cloud-init-centos-user.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3ebaa88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SOURCES/cloud-init-centos-user.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -uNrp cloud-init-18.2.orig/rhel/cloud.cfg cloud-init-18.2/rhel/cloud.cfg
+--- cloud-init-18.2.orig/rhel/cloud.cfg	2018-11-04 15:38:13.763701007 +0000
++++ cloud-init-18.2/rhel/cloud.cfg	2018-11-04 15:41:06.934576619 +0000
+@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ cloud_final_modules:
+ 
+ system_info:
+   default_user:
+-    name: cloud-user
++    name: centos
+     lock_passwd: true
+     gecos: Cloud User
+     groups: [wheel, adm, systemd-journal]
diff --git a/SPECS/cloud-init.spec b/SPECS/cloud-init.spec
index 7f60664..422bcf2 100644
--- a/SPECS/cloud-init.spec
+++ b/SPECS/cloud-init.spec
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ Patch20: ci-Fix-for-network-configuration-not-persisting-after-r.patch
 # For bz#1744526 - [cloud-init][OpenStack] cloud-init can't persist instance-data.json
 Patch21: ci-util-json.dumps-on-python-2.7-will-handle-UnicodeDec.patch
 
+Patch9999: cloud-init-centos-user.patch
+
 # Deal with noarch -> arch
 # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1067089
 Obsoletes:      cloud-init < 0.7.5-3