Hello, FYI. Our engineer managed to solve the problem for the password reset with bare cloud-init and Ubuntu 16.04. Confirm, it works, however it seems it uses hacks Yordan is talking about: https://pastebin.com/Pattjr5a
пт, 9 нояб. 2018 г. в 17:48, Yordan Kostov <yordan.kos...@worldsupport.info >: > Hey Rene and Ivan, > > During tests my setup was utilizing Rene scripts: > - 99_CloudStack.cfg script successfully makes cloud-init to use Cloudstack > data. > - 80_root.cfg script was preventing cloud_init to start during boot > (missing parameters error message) so I removed it and used the default > config.cfg instead. > > Regarding the password change I figured it out - the password > script is made to be run once per instance. The data about the password > setup is kept by /var/lib/cloud/instances/<instance > uuild>/sem/config_set_passwords file. If you delete this file the next > boot will fetch the ACD password but it will apply it for the user that has > been set in cloud-init config file. > > Possible workarounds: > - ugly - make sure the file is deleted after boot with the custom script > cloud-init option. > - clean - change the password script execution frequency per boot instead > of per instance. Unfortunately I could not find the file that defines the > frequency for the datasource file > (/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cloudinit/sources/DataSourceCloudStack.py). > > > Best regards, > Jordan > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ivan Kudryavtsev [mailto:kudryavtsev...@bw-sw.com] > Sent: Friday, November 9, 2018 9:48 PM > To: m...@renemoser.net > Cc: users <users@cloudstack.apache.org> > Subject: Re: cloudstack reset VM password files > > Rene, thank you for your confirmation that it works. I'll check it again, > but my configuration looks like yours (haven't checked line by line) and > password reset doesn't work with cloud-init from ubuntu apt repository. Our > engineer rebuilds template delivery CI/CD pipeline now and we will have a > chance to test again. > > пт, 9 нояб. 2018 г. в 14:41, Rene Moser <m...@renemoser.net>: > > > Hi again > > > > Seems no one seems to read my stuff. > > > > cloud-init is able to reset the password (similar the scripts), see > > > > https://github.com/cloud-init/cloud-init/blob/master/cloudinit/sources > > /DataSourceCloudStack.py#L45 > > > > > > WE USE IT! IT REALLY WORKS. > > > > Note that it uses the default user, e.g. for CentOS it is centos. That > > is why we configure the default user. > > > > Look at the conifgs I wrote in the first mail. > > > > Regards > > René > > > > > -- > With best regards, Ivan Kudryavtsev > Bitworks LLC > Cell RU: +7-923-414-1515 > Cell USA: +1-201-257-1512 > WWW: http://bitworks.software/ <http://bw-sw.com/> > -- With best regards, Ivan Kudryavtsev Bitworks LLC Cell RU: +7-923-414-1515 Cell USA: +1-201-257-1512 WWW: http://bitworks.software/ <http://bw-sw.com/>
