Re: root password for hosts: needed past setup?

2015-04-27 Thread Rohit Yadav
Hi Frank, Yes while you can remove the password, in case the cloudstack-agent is not running for any reason - you’ll need to manually start the agent as CloudStack itself will fail to ssh and start the cloudstack-agent. On 24-Apr-2015, at 5:45 pm, Frank Louwers fr...@openminds.be wrote:

Re: root password for hosts: needed past setup?

2015-04-27 Thread Ugo Vasi
Hi all, is it possible to use a sudo-user with limited controls instead of root? Il 27/04/2015 14:09, Rohit Yadav ha scritto: Hi Frank, Yes while you can remove the password, in case the cloudstack-agent is not running for any reason - you’ll need to manually start the agent as CloudStack

Re: root password for hosts: needed past setup?

2015-04-24 Thread Rohit Yadav
Hi, On 21-Apr-2015, at 8:04 pm, Frank Louwers fr...@openminds.be wrote: Hi, When adding a host, the webUI asks for a username and password to connect to the new host. Is this only used for the initial setup over ssh, or is this used later on as well? It is used later as well, if hosts

Re: root password for hosts: needed past setup?

2015-04-24 Thread Frank Louwers
Thanks for your reply Rohit. We are on KVM indeed. So I can safely remove the password... Frank On 24 Apr 2015, at 15:05, Rohit Yadav rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com wrote: It also depends on what kind of host you have (KVM/Xen/VMware etc?), for example once the agent on a KVM host is setup

root password for hosts: needed past setup?

2015-04-21 Thread Frank Louwers
Hi, When adding a host, the webUI asks for a username and password to connect to the new host. Is this only used for the initial setup over ssh, or is this used later on as well? We tend to disable passwords as much as possible, in favour of ssh keys, and I was wondering if I could safely