Enlistment error says I can login with ubuntu:ubuntu, but I can't

[Jason Hobbs]

When a p8 node I have fails to enlist, it outputs to console that I can login with ubuntu:ubuntu and touch /tmp/block-poweroff. However, when I try to ssh in, I get an authentication failure (public key denied).

https://pastebin.canonical.com/123242/

the maas-enlist script tries to set the ubuntu user password but it doesn't work for some reason. I had to manually edit the enlistment userdata to add a public key to get this to work.

This is with MAAS 1.7.1~rc1+bzr3313-0ubuntu1~trusty1

[Blake Rouse (blake-rouse)]

I think the best thing to do here is to not fix the message but fix the implementation. Meaning I think enlist should create the ubuntu user with the ubuntu password and allow a user to login before it restarts or restart after a minute. If the user logs in then it should stop the poweroff.

Thoughts?

[Jason Hobbs (jason-hobbs)]

Yes, that sounds reasonable to me. Perhaps a more secure solution would be to add public keys from the admin user in MAAS to the node.

[Blake Rouse (blake-rouse)]

Maybe but I think in most cases the user would be watching the node boot from a KVM or something. So password authentication would be the best.

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

I like the idea of enabling SSH access for MAAS admin users in this case. MAAS already has root on this box ;)

I am currently experiencing this error first-hand in the gMAAS, because one of my nodes is failing to enlist for unknown reasons.

[Andres Rodriguez (andreserl)]

Hi!

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