Thanks Harikrishna, I did not know the password would get encrypted with the ssh key. What happens when there is no ssh key registered, how are the passwords encrypted then?
Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Harikrishna Patnala" <harikrishna.patn...@citrix.com> > To: "<dev@cloudstack.apache.org>" <dev@cloudstack.apache.org> > Sent: Thursday, 2 April, 2015 07:17:54 > Subject: Re: reset sshkeyforvirtualmachine also resets password > Hi Nux, > > As already mentioned we store the encrypted vm password using the ssh key, so > we > need to reset the password also. > > Regarding the password field in the DB, we have an API to get the VM password > (https://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/api/apidocs-4.5/root_admin/getVMPassword.html) > which gets encrypted password from DB. > > Thanks, > Harikrishna > > On 02-Apr-2015, at 5:07 am, Nux! <n...@li.nux.ro> wrote: > >> Somesh, >> >> Why wouldn't the root password field in the DB just be left alone? >> >> -- >> Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! >> >> Nux! >> www.nux.ro >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Somesh Naidu" <somesh.na...@citrix.com> >>> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org >>> Sent: Thursday, 2 April, 2015 00:06:54 >>> Subject: RE: reset sshkeyforvirtualmachine also resets password >> >>> I believe so, since the VM's password (stored in the user_vm_details table) >>> needs to be encrypted using the new keys and I believe encryption is a >>> one-way >>> hash. >>> >>> Somesh >>> CloudPlatform Escalations >>> Citrix Systems, Inc. >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Nux! [mailto:n...@li.nux.ro] >>> Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 9:16 AM >>> To: dev >>> Subject: reset sshkeyforvirtualmachine also resets password >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've just noticed resetsshkeyforvirtualmachine also resets the root >>> password. >>> This doesn't sound right. Is this supposed to happen? >>> >>> 4.4.3 RC2 (4.4-RC20150324T1321) CentOS/KVM >>> >>> -- >>> Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! >>> >>> Nux! > >> www.nux.ro
