[Openstack] Handling of adminPass is arguably broken (essex)
Pádraig Brady
P at draigBrady.com
Thu Nov 1 17:24:29 UTC 2012
On 11/01/2012 05:14 PM, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 09:09:14PM -0400, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:
>> TL;DR: The way OpenStack handles the adminPass attribute during
>> metadata injection is not useful on operating systems without an
>> /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. I would like to make the adminPass value
>> available on a Windows instance, and this is my proposal for how to do
>> it.
>
> Oh geez, it gets worse. The configuration disk created by OpenStack
> is a whole-disk filesystem (no partition map), so Windows thinks it's
> all unallocated space...so even with my patches in place I still can't
> get at the data.
>
> I can see I'm traveling through largely unexplored territory here.
It's somewhere on my TODO list to refactor the new
config disk stuff to reuse the mounting logic from
virt/disk/ and thus could support partitions if required.
cheers,
Pádraig.
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