[Openstack] [Nova] What is the correct way to provide Windows instance password for user?

Martinx - ジェームズ thiagocmartinsc at gmail.com
Sat Jan 18 18:32:47 UTC 2014


Hi!

You can try this: www.cloudbase.it/ws2012r2/

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On 18 January 2014 11:21, jeffty <wantwatering at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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