We've used sysprep to have the administrator provide a password when the instance is first booted. On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 8:44 PM, jeffty <wantwatering at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Martinx, > > I've tried windows 2012 image created by cloudbase before. Also I have > created windows image with cloudbase windows cloud-init also. > > For CloudBase's 2012 image, when you launch the instance you will find > the Administrator has an empty password and you need to modify it first > log in. > > For my own image there is a non-empty password for Administrator and > user need to know that before launch the instance. > > But I don't think these way are good for providing in commercial. Since > customer may order many same windows instances at the same time. All of > them have the same empty or specified password is not secure. > > So that's my confusion. > > Thanks. > > On 1/19/2014 2:32 AM, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: > > Hi! > > > > You can try this: www.cloudbase.it/ws2012r2/ > > <http://www.cloudbase.it/ws2012r2/> > > > > =) > > > > > > On 18 January 2014 11:21, jeffty <wantwatering at gmail.com > > <mailto:wantwatering at gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > Hi there, > > > > What is the best way to provide password of Windows instance in > > Openstack? > > > > Cloudbase provides windows-cloud-init to set hostname, inject > password > > and network configuration in: > > http://www.cloudbase.it/cloud-init-for-windows-instances/. > > > > With such kind of image the created Windows instance has an empty > > Administrator password. When the user first log in he needs to change > > the Administrator's password with his own. > > > > It's ok if the user only ordered one instance. But if he orders 10 > > Windows instances and he needs to modify the empty Administrator > > password one by one. At this moment other uses can log in this these > > instances and change the password if they know its floating IP. So > this > > is not secure. > > > > In commercial how do they provide Windows password then? E.g. how > Amazon > > cloud service provide windows instance to users? > > > > Thanks. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: > > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > > Post to : openstack at lists.openstack.org > > <mailto:openstack at lists.openstack.org> > > Unsubscribe : > > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > Post to : openstack at lists.openstack.org > Unsubscribe : > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20140118/09c9e512/attachment.html>