>From my understanding, this isn't done via cloud-init, but instead is done via nasty file injection that actually adjusts the /etc/shadow (or similar file). It might have changed though. From: Abel Lopez <alopgeek at gmail.com<mailto:alopgeek at gmail.com>> Date: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 2:12 PM To: "OpenStack-operators at lists.openstack.org<mailto:OpenStack-operators at lists.openstack.org>" <OpenStack-operators at lists.openstack.org<mailto:OpenStack-operators at lists.openstack.org>> Subject: [Openstack-operators] cloud-init root password from meta-data? I've been googling for a while, and I see lots of examples of setting the root password using user-data, but I want to know how I can use the random "admin-pass" that's created at instance creation. Does anyone have an example of how cloud-init can use that? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-operators/attachments/20130924/15f193da/attachment.html>