Thanks @stuarthendren! The password in the LoginCredentials should be the SSH password used to connect to the node. In other words, the returned password should be the one that can be used to run scripts, and automated stuff on the node, and the VNC one does not meet that goal.
In CloudSigma, however, the images don't allow a password login, because an interactive prompt is shown on the first login to set the password. The only images that allow an automated interaction are the cloud-init ones, which allow to configure an SSH public key. jclouds configures that ssh key and the username, and intentionally sets the password to null. Does this make sense? --- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds-labs/pull/177#issuecomment-106207043
