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Hourly billing panel for virtual machines
http://lobster.lunanode.com
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Digitalocean VM root password retrieve issue #56

Closed rezabagh closed 8 years ago

rezabagh commented 8 years ago

hello,

On Digital Ocean the cloud-init not working for a variety of OS to set the root password in lobster Panel.

Tahnks

uakfdotb commented 8 years ago

It looks like the user data is not working on some operating systems; for example, it does work on Ubuntu 14.04 and Debian 8.3 templates, but not on Debian 7.9. Also, the root password is not accessible except over e-mail (there's no API command to retrieve it or anything).

I thought this might only be failing for cloud-init scripts, but I tested with simple bash script and even that fails. So apparently DO user data support is basically broken for most of their templates...

The only option I see would be for users to provision a VM from the desired template, run install cloud-init (e.g. apt-get install cloud-init), and take a snapshot. I haven't tested to make sure this works but it should.

uakfdotb commented 8 years ago

Closing since there is no known way around this.