Hi yhzou, Thanks for using (and testing!) Ubuntu, and for filing this bug. Setting a default password in the cloud-images.ubuntu.com images would make them insecure: any Ubuntu instance launched from them would have a backdoor installed, essentially.
There are a couple of options: you could specify user-data to cloud-init which will set the password of the user (see https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/modules.html#users- and-groups for details) or, if you aren't able to specify user-data, then you could look into modifying the image locally to add a backdoor for your testing. As there is no bug in cloud-init, I'm going to mark this as Invalid, but if you have any questions please do feel free to ask. Thanks! Dan ** Changed in: cloud-init (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1903610 Title: the password for default user "ubuntu" in cloud image (with suffix .ova) is random To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/+bug/1903610/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
