[ovirt-users] cloud-init root password?

[Michal Skrivanek]

On Apr 7, 2015, at 13:55 , Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos at redhat.com> wrote:

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> ----- 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
>>>> wrote:
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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.
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> 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

sure, this is just GUI limitation
there's the custom section where you can do whatever

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

just plain pwd; with an ugly hack for root

Thanks,
michal

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>>> 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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