How to setup Username and password on Ubuntu Cloud Image Template #10592

ipcloudlive · 2025-03-20T10:02:16Z

ipcloudlive
Mar 20, 2025

I need help or guide to setup username and password on ubuntu cloud image using cloudstack

weizhouapache · 2025-03-20T10:39:45Z

weizhouapache
Mar 20, 2025
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I need help or guide to setup username and password on ubuntu cloud image using cloudstack

you can try

deploy a vm with ssh key,
ssh into the vm using ssh key (username is ubuntu),

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ipcloudlive · 2025-03-20T10:45:34Z

ipcloudlive
Mar 20, 2025
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but I need to set password for it as, I am doing a module for whmcs, I need guide to do that automation!
Thank you

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weizhouapache Mar 20, 2025
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but I need to set password for it as, I am doing a module for whmcs, I need guide to do that automation! Thank you

if you are able to log into the vm, you can do a lot of things, right ?
reset root password, create template, etc

ipcloudlive Mar 20, 2025
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I am tring to set root password while deploying itself
Thank you for your fast response

weizhouapache Mar 20, 2025
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you can refer to what @tdtmusic2 suggested

please bear in mind that the default user for cloud-init is ubuntu, not root
you may have to use sudo sometimes.

tdtmusic2 · 2025-03-20T11:02:57Z

tdtmusic2
Mar 20, 2025

Why not do it via user-data? With that you can have random password at first boot, you can reset the password, resize the disks, etc.

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ipcloudlive · 2025-03-20T11:29:48Z

ipcloudlive
Mar 20, 2025
Author

I am using template with the below config,
I also tried user-data with below, is something I need to change ?
plz give if there is any solution,
Thank you

#cloud-config
chpasswd:
  list: |
    root:marvel
  expire: False
ssh_pwauth: True

{
    "listtemplatesresponse": {
        "count": 1,
        "template": [
            {
                "id": "be9f098c-97fa-4afb-88c8-fc9a6af6eb00",
                "name": "Ubuntu Server 22.04",
                "displaytext": "Ubuntu Server 22.04 amd64",
                "ispublic": true,
                "created": "2025-02-18T14:25:02+0530",
                "isready": true,
                "passwordenabled": true,
                "format": "QCOW2",
                "isfeatured": true,
                "crossZones": true,
                "ostypeid": "b628304c-b52b-4ee4-97d1-88075c459c3a",
                "ostypename": "Ubuntu 22.04 LTS",
                "account": "admin",
                "zoneid": "90a4343c-df24-40a7-9685-99fa5c7d0c65",
                "zonename": "SALEM",
                "status": "Download Complete",
                "size": 2361393152,
                "physicalsize": 666944000,
                "templatetype": "USER",
                "hypervisor": "KVM",
                "domain": "ROOT",
                "domainpath": "/",
                "domainid": "0c029311-eb9b-11ef-8f9f-4e90e406eee4",
                "isextractable": true,
                "checksum": "06ae3f1af58525dd9413835d04fc2a405ba1df28d1a81bebcce705476c966d29fac00325eaf976df9d57e7c2f4574d2af3dd906d4f6269e4e40099954ac5444f",
                "details": {
                    "rootDiskController": "osdefault"
                },
                "downloaddetails": [
                    {
                        "downloadState": "DOWNLOADED",
                        "datastore": "Secondary Storage",
                        "datastoreRole": "Image",
                        "downloadPercent": "100",
                        "datastoreId": "90c6db43-e4ee-442e-b368-105b2c237c99"
                    },
                    {
                        "downloadState": "DOWNLOADED",
                        "datastore": "Primary Storage ",
                        "datastoreRole": "Primary",
                        "downloadPercent": "100",
                        "datastoreId": "b30c0f37-8876-3003-a552-61bcce73ea4c"
                    }
                ],
                "arch": "x86_64",
                "bits": 0,
                "sshkeyenabled": false,
                "isdynamicallyscalable": false,
                "directdownload": false,
                "deployasis": false,
                "requireshvm": true,
                "url": "https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/jammy/current/jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64.img",
                "userdataid": "dea3349c-f94e-4b78-8f65-23c110add809",
                "userdataname": "ResetpasswordNew",
                "userdatapolicy": "ALLOWOVERRIDE",
                "tags": [],
                "hasannotations": false
            }
        ]
    }
}

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tdtmusic2 Mar 20, 2025

Here are some useful examples with user data on cloud-init: https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/yaml_examples/set_passwords.html#cce-set-passwords

ipcloudlive Mar 20, 2025
Author

Thanks but I am using given user-data with this template https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/jammy/current/jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64.img

I created user-data and use it , also I edited instance and use it, still I cannot use with the given username and password

Did I need to learn some other things like setup template with configuration like that ??

I used this user-data

#cloud-config
chpasswd:
  expire: false
  users:
  - {name: user, password: user, type: text}
ssh_pwauth: false

when I try to login with user:user in novnc , its not working
Thank you

ipcloudlive Mar 20, 2025
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DaanHoogland · 2025-05-01T09:28:06Z

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May 1, 2025
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@ipcloudlive , can you make a summary of your progress here? It seems most of your questions have been answerred, right?

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