[Openstack-operators] cloud-init root password from meta-data?

Adam Young ayoung at redhat.com
Tue Sep 24 22:00:59 UTC 2013


On 09/24/2013 05:53 PM, Joshua Harlow wrote:
> 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 
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> 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?
>
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Not quite the same thing, but I generated a script to do FreeIPA 
registration that uses an OTP:

adam.younglogic.com/2013/09/register-vm-freeipa/
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