We created a blueprint on adding support for password generation when creating servers. This is needed for Openstack API/Cloud Servers API v1.0 parity. We are anxious to get this work started so if you are interested please review the following: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/openstack-api-server-passwords http://etherpad.openstack.org/openstack-api-server-passwords Dan Prince