[ovirt-users] cloud-init root password?

[Simone Tiraboschi]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michal Skrivanek" <michal.skrivanek at redhat.com>
> To: "Jorick Astrego" <j.astrego at netbulae.eu>
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2015 1:36:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] cloud-init root password?
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> On Apr 7, 2015, at 13:24 , Jorick Astrego <j.astrego at netbulae.eu> wrote:
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> > On 04/07/2015 11:31 AM, Michal Skrivanek wrote:
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> > > On Apr 3, 2015, at 13:07 , Jorick Astrego <j.astrego at netbulae.eu
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> > >> Hi,
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> > >> On 3.5.2rc3, the root password field from cloud-init is missing. How do
> > >> I set the root password now for a fresh VM?
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> > 
> > > Hi Jorick,
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> > > This was 3.5 enhancement to support also non-root users
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> > > you use username "root" and set a password:-)
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> > > Thanks,
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> > > michal
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> > I normally deploy through foreman and we have ipa integrated, so I
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> > haven't used it in a while.
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> > When I use username "root" and set the password, how do I add another
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> > normal user then?
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> you can only define one. It's not meant to be a guest user management tool.

By the way it's not a a cloud-init limit, there you can define more than user:
http://cloudinit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/examples.html#including-users-and-groups

Michal, are you working with plain password or with salted hashed ones?
I had some experiment on hosted-engine with strange results on that.

> > Say I want to add an user account & set the root password. When I fill
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> > in the username & password there is no way to login to the system as
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> > this user and gain root access in any way (sudo is not allowed).
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> > So it could have just remained rootpw as the vm is worthless otherwise
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> > or am I missing something?
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> it was a specific request for cloud-based images. It only makes sense on
> templates where you've already initialized root or sudo
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> Thanks,
> michal
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> > Regards, Jorick
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> > Met vriendelijke groet, With kind regards,
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> > Jorick Astrego
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