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nova/doc/source/admin/admin-password-injection.rst
Chen Hanxiao 95057b0cae libvirt: add Linux distribution guest only description for inject_xxx options
Actually, inject_password, inject_key and inject_partition
by libguestfs is only valid for linux guest.
Add some descriptions for these.

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Change-Id: I5b2ef7d677a1d2d47052df5eaf8726cfc02eea1c
Signed-off-by: Chen Hanxiao <chenhx@certusnet.com.cn>
2018-02-14 19:56:19 +08:00

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Injecting the administrator password
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Compute can generate a random administrator (root) password and inject that
password into an instance. If this feature is enabled, users can run
:command:`ssh` to an instance without an :command:`ssh` keypair. The random
password appears in the output of the :command:`openstack server create`
command. You can also view and set the admin password from the dashboard.
.. rubric:: Password injection using the dashboard
By default, the dashboard will display the ``admin`` password and allow the
user to modify it.
If you do not want to support password injection, disable the password fields
by editing the dashboard's ``local_settings.py`` file.
.. code-block:: none
OPENSTACK_HYPERVISOR_FEATURES = {
...
'can_set_password': False,
}
.. rubric:: Password injection on libvirt-based hypervisors
For hypervisors that use the libvirt back end (such as KVM, QEMU, and LXC),
admin password injection is disabled by default. To enable it, set this option
in ``/etc/nova/nova.conf``:
.. code-block:: ini
[libvirt]
inject_password=true
When enabled, Compute will modify the password of the admin account by editing
the ``/etc/shadow`` file inside the virtual machine instance.
.. note::
Linux distribution guest only.
.. note::
Users can only use :command:`ssh` to access the instance by using the admin
password if the virtual machine image is a Linux distribution, and it has
been configured to allow users to use :command:`ssh` as the root user. This
is not the case for `Ubuntu cloud images <http://uec-images.ubuntu.com>`_
which, by default, does not allow users to use :command:`ssh` to access the
root account.
.. rubric:: Password injection and XenAPI (XenServer/XCP)
When using the XenAPI hypervisor back end, Compute uses the XenAPI agent to
inject passwords into guests. The virtual machine image must be configured with
the agent for password injection to work.
.. rubric:: Password injection and Windows images (all hypervisors)
For Windows virtual machines, configure the Windows image to retrieve the admin
password on boot by installing an agent such as `cloudbase-init
<https://cloudbase.it/cloudbase-init>`_.