[ovirt-users] cloud-init woes w/ templates

[Michal Skrivanek]

On Apr 12, 2014, at 15:39 , Andrew Lau <andrew at andrewklau.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Has anyone had any success with cloud-init and templates with ovirt
> 3.4? So far, it seems to be able to configure things like networks
> etc. But when it goes to do with passwords, it must be set again in
> the "run once" or in the "Initial Run" even if "Use already configured
> password" is set.

Hi,
which version you're talking about?

> 
> Another thing, why is it only setup to change the root password? By
> default cloud-init will block root, so nearly all images need to be
> modified ie.
> sed -i 's/disable_root: 1/disable_root: 0\nchpasswd: { expire: False
> }/g' /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg

yeah. this has been fixed recently

> 
> Otherwise, you'll login and it'll ask you to change your password.
> Defeats the purpose of setting it through cloud-init? I'm also not
> being able to just set an SSH key, it insists a password otherwise the
> key won't get uploaded.

hm, not sure, Shahar?

> 
> Finally, templates seem to be lacking validation. Where "Initial Run"
> and "Run Once" will give the red box if you have the wrong syntax
> while templates don't care.

syntax of what?

Thanks,
michal

> 
> Thanks,
> Andrew
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