Re: [Openstack] Question about VM credentials - newbie

2016-08-31 Thread David Medberry
cloud-init and cloud-config is how one can add a password to a cloud image though it is NEVER recommended. See: http://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/examples.html and read about users and groups and mkpasswd cloud-init will read this at vm boot time and apply the cloud-config (presu

Re: [Openstack] Question about VM credentials - newbie

2016-08-31 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
On Aug 31, 2016, at 1:35 PM, David Medberry wrote: > cloud-init and cloud-config is how one can add a password to a cloud image > though it is NEVER recommended. But that information is available with curl (in clear text!) on ANY host, right? ___ Maili

Re: [Openstack] Question about VM credentials - newbie

2016-08-31 Thread Brent Troge
You can also mount the image file and modify the user , password, sshd, etc files accordingly. Once changes saved and image unmounted upload into glance. You now have an image with a known user password. On Aug 30, 2016 2:30 PM, "Turbo Fredriksson" wrote: > On Aug 30, 2016, at 3:07 PM, Kevin Wi

Re: [Openstack] Question about VM credentials - newbie

2016-08-30 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
On Aug 30, 2016, at 3:07 PM, Kevin Wilson wrote: > While googling for it, I saw that someone said that logging in via > user/password credentials is not possible for this image, but I doubt > it. How one is expected to login into console and not via ssh without > such credentials? Very few (any??

[Openstack] Question about VM credentials - newbie

2016-08-30 Thread Kevin Wilson
Hi, I downloaded the trusty-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img file and I created an image in Horizon based on it. I launched that instance, and then went to "console". I was reqested to give credentials, tried "ubuntu/ubunty" and others, googled for it, but could not find anything which solves this i