Open Stack

Hi there,

What is the best way to provide password of Windows instance in Openstack?

Cloudbase provides windows-cloud-init to set hostname, inject password
and network configuration in:
http://www.cloudbase.it/cloud-init-for-windows-instances/.

With such kind of image the created Windows instance has an empty
Administrator password. When the user first log in he needs to change
the Administrator's password with his own.

It's ok if the user only ordered one instance. But if he orders 10
Windows instances and he needs to modify the empty Administrator
password one by one. At this moment other uses can log in this these
instances and change the password if they know its floating IP. So this
is not secure.

In commercial how do they provide Windows password then? E.g. how Amazon
cloud service provide windows instance to users?

Thanks.