I've made some progress with debugging. - the account hadmut1 is created if the identity:-section is completely removed from user-data, so identity is not 'optional', but exclusive.
- it does not exist immediately when the first boot prompt comes, it is delayed. You have to wait until you see around one and a half screens full of log messages - I could log in only over ssh and ssh-key with additional kvm option -nic user,model=virtio,hostfwd=tcp::2222-:22, not with password, because I had copied the password entry from the identity section to use the default 'ubuntu' password. Doesn't work, because in the identity:-section the password entry tag is password:, while in the users section it is passwd: . If you name it password:, it is not found and thus not set. - even if the password is given with the passwd: tag, it is not possible to login with that password, because the entry in /etc/shadow looks like this: hadmut1:!$6$exDY1mhS4KUYCE/2$zmn9ToZwTKLhCw.b4/b.ZRTIZM30JZ4QrOQ2aOXJ8yk96xpcCof0kxKwuX1kqLG/ygbJ1f8wxED22bTL4F46P0:18728:0:99999:7::: Note the ! the hash begins with. That's inhibiting password use. However, the account is not completely locked, since login with ssh is still possible. I found by googling, that there is an additional field lock_passwd: true which might have a default value of true. I'll check this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1923045 Title: cloud-init + installer not creating user accounts To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/+bug/1923045/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
