Password is encrypted and stored only if the vm is deployed from password enabled template and ssh public key is provided, Otherwise we don’t encrypt or store the password.
-Harikrishna On 02-Apr-2015, at 1:48 pm, Nux! <n...@li.nux.ro> wrote: > 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
