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Compute API configuration
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The Compute API, is the component of OpenStack Compute that receives and
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responds to user requests, whether they be direct API calls, or via the CLI
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tools or dashboard.
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Configure Compute API password handling
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The OpenStack Compute API enables users to specify an administrative password
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when they create, rebuild, rescue or evacuate a server instance.
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If the user does not specify a password, a random password is generated
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and returned in the API response.
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In practice, how the admin password is handled depends on the hypervisor in use
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and might require additional configuration of the instance. For example, you
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might have to install an agent to handle the password setting. If the
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hypervisor and instance configuration do not support setting a password at
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server create time, the password that is returned by the create API call is
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misleading because it was ignored.
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To prevent this confusion, set the ``enable_instance_password`` configuration
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to ``False`` to disable the return of the admin password for installations that
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do not support setting instance passwords.
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