That should be fine, as long as you don't mind a reboot if you want to change your password. That sounds reasonable enough, given the complexity of the alternative. Cheers, John > -----Original Message----- > From: openstack-bounces+john.garbutt=eu.citrix.com at lists.launchpad.net > [mailto:openstack-bounces+john.garbutt=eu.citrix.com at lists.launchpad.net] > On Behalf Of Thierry Carrez > Sent: Wednesday, July 4, 2012 10:33 AM > To: openstack at lists.launchpad.net > Subject: Re: [Openstack] Setting VM passwords when not running on Xen > > Scott Moser wrote: > > Is it for some reason not possible to have code that runs on first > > instance boot that reads the metadata service (or config drive) and > > sets the password appropriately? > > I see no reason why you could not. Windows scripting supported both running > scripts at boot and setting user passwords last time I looked :) > > Using the same mechanism as cloud-init on Linux sounds a lot better to me than > a Windows-only hack to enable server-side generation and two-way > communication... > -- > Thierry Carrez (ttx) > Release Manager, OpenStack > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack at lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp