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[Scott Moser <smoser@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2012, Day, Phil wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> Is anyone else looking at how to support images that need a password
> rather than an ssh key (windows) on hypervisors that don't support
> set_admin_password (e.g. libvirt) ?

I'm completely ignorant about windows.
Please forgive me.

Is it for some reason not possible to have code that runs on first
instance boot that reads the metadata service (or config drive) and sets
the password appropriately?

Or, is there something that makes this actually a nova problem, something
that cannot reasonably be solved in the same way such things are solved in
other operating systems.

Is there no way that you could pass in a public key that would be used for
authentication to RDP or whatever you'd do?  (grave ignorance of windows).