openstack team mailing list archive

[John Garbutt <John.Garbutt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

That should be fine, as long as you don't mind a reboot if you want to change your password.
That sounds reasonable enough, given the complexity of the alternative.

Cheers,
John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openstack-bounces+john.garbutt=eu.citrix.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:openstack-bounces+john.garbutt=eu.citrix.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Thierry Carrez
> Sent: Wednesday, July 4, 2012 10:33 AM
> To: openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Setting VM passwords when not running on Xen
> 
> Scott Moser wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> I see no reason why you could not. Windows scripting supported both running
> scripts at boot and setting user passwords last time I looked :)
> 
> Using the same mechanism as cloud-init on Linux sounds a lot better to me than
> a Windows-only hack to enable server-side generation and two-way
> communication...
> --
> Thierry Carrez (ttx)
> Release Manager, OpenStack
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack
> Post to     : openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack
> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp