On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Marcus Furlong <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 27 September 2017 at 09:23, Michael Still <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Operationally, why would I want to inject a new keypair? The scenario I > can > > think of is that there's data in that instance that I want, and I've lost > > the keypair somehow. Unless that data is on an ephemeral, its gone if we > do > > a rebuild. > > This is quite a common scenario - staff member who started the > instance leaves, and you want to access data on the instance, or > maintain/debug the service running on the instance. > > I can think of several ways to solve this problem： 1) reset the password by using the admin_pass API (if available) 2) libguestfs the instance dist directly > Hitherto, I have used direct db calls to update the key, so it would > be nice if there was an API call to do so. > > These are some tricks for unusual scenarios. Nova API needs to stay robust and general. > Cheers, > Marcus. > -- > Marcus Furlong > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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