Yes, the Cloudstack root password feature is (to my knowledge) totally unsupported by cloud-init. So only ssh keys and user data works. To work around it, I usually throw the cloudstack-set-root-password script in /var/lib/cloud/scripts/per-boot so cloud-init will execute it every time the VM boots.
HTH Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Duffy" <i...@ianduffy.ie> To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Sent: Monday, 23 June, 2014 6:09:30 PM Subject: Debian + Cloud-Init Hi All, In the past i've used the community supplied scripts over at https://github.com/shankerbalan/cloudstack-scripts for doing injection of password / ssh keys. I'm trying to move to cloud-init to handle this for me however I am having some issues. I modified my /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg file to use CloudStack as a datasource: datasource_list: ['CloudStack'] datasource: CloudStack: {} I also set the following: disable_root: False user: root ssh_pwauth: True ssh_deletekeys: True ssh_genkeytypes: ['rsa', 'dsa'] ssh_svcname: ssh On booting up the machine I see the script run successfully and pull the metadata down from the VR. The hostname is also set and new ssh keys are generated. On attempting to login as root with the password provided on the Cloudstack UI I am unsuccessful. I'm unsure why. Anybody got an idea where I'm going wrong? Thanks, Ian
