Public bug reported: The only way to assign a hashed password to a user is to use passwd within a users entry like this: users: - name: root passwd: $6$Cl....Hy$IEJciQZLxQLzkST......g.bzqf3lUl.
But, if that user is already present on the system, cloud-init will skip setting the password: journal: [CLOUDINIT] __init__.py[INFO]: User root already exists, skipping. You can change password with chpasswd, but that only supports clear-text password. Requesting that chpasswd get support for setting a hashed password to users. ** Affects: cloud-init Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Summary changed: - RFE: chpasswd in cloud-init should + RFE: chpasswd in cloud-init should support hashed passwords -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to cloud-init. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1570325 Title: RFE: chpasswd in cloud-init should support hashed passwords Status in cloud-init: New Bug description: The only way to assign a hashed password to a user is to use passwd within a users entry like this: users: - name: root passwd: $6$Cl....Hy$IEJciQZLxQLzkST......g.bzqf3lUl. But, if that user is already present on the system, cloud-init will skip setting the password: journal: [CLOUDINIT] __init__.py[INFO]: User root already exists, skipping. You can change password with chpasswd, but that only supports clear- text password. Requesting that chpasswd get support for setting a hashed password to users. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1570325/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp