CloudStack Tutorial:PasswordManagement

This page explains how to add password reset feature to virtual machines (useful for template creation). The password reset feature, if enabled in Template, will reset the password at instance generation.

Note: This is taken directly from the CloudStack manual. It has not been tested

To activate this in a template, you need to install extra script in your VM:

• For windows, download the installer CloudInstanceManager.msi and run it in the Windows VM.
• For Linux, download the script cloud-set-guest-password into /etc/init.d (or /etc/rc.d/init.d), make it executable by chmod +x /etc/init.d/cloud-set-guest-password and do:
  • If you are in Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, or Debian, run chkconfig --add cloud-set-guest-password.
  • If you are in Ubuntu: first if you are running version 11.04, create a directory /var/lib/dhcp3, then run sudo update-rc.d cloud-set-guest-password defaults 98. You need to have mkpasswd installed (sudo apt-get install whois or sudo apt-get install mkpasswd depending on your Ubuntu version.