[Openstack] Question about VM credentials - newbie

Brent Troge brenttroge2016 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 31 10:54:14 UTC 2016


You can also mount the image file and modify the user , password, sshd, etc
files accordingly.  Once changes saved and image unmounted upload into
glance.
You now have an image with a known user password.

On Aug 30, 2016 2:30 PM, "Turbo Fredriksson" <turbo at bayour.com> wrote:

> On Aug 30, 2016, at 3:07 PM, Kevin Wilson wrote:
>
> > While googling for it, I saw that someone said that logging in via
> > user/password credentials is not possible for this image, but I doubt
> > it. How one is expected to login into console and not via ssh without
> > such credentials?
>
> Very few (any??) cloud images have password login enabled. Probably
> because this is a _cloud_ image. Anyone, anywhere can download it,
> and if there was a default PW, then anyone could login.
>
> Instead, you add your SSH key to OS, and then add that to the instance.
>
>
> Look in Horizon, under "Project -> Compute -> Access & Security -> Key
> Pairs"
> and then "Project -> Compute -> Instances -> Launch Instance -> Key Pair".
>
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