Public bug reported: Provisioning with a user password is supported on Azure, however it seems the behavior of cloud-init is to not set the user password if the user already exists. Ideally, if the user exists, then during provisioning cloud-init will read the user password from the ovf-env.xml file as usual and attempt to set that password for the existing user.
Repro: 1) Capture or upload a user image with a pre-created user 2) Provision a VM with a password Expected: password is (re)set on the user account based on the info in the ovf-env.xml file. Result: password is not set. ** Affects: cloud-init (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1571822 Title: Azure: cloud-init will not set password on existing user To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/+bug/1571822/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs