CentOS 7's current cloud-init version does not support pre-hashed passwords

[Karen Davtyan]

Hello Dear team,

We have just found out, that centos7's cloud-init does not support pre-hashed passwords.

Related bugs:
 * bug 1779811: Debian's current cloud-init version does not support pre-hashed passwords

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

Hi,
Can you please verify if this problem still exists using a cloud-init trunk build from
 https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/cloud-init/cloud-init-dev/

If it is still a problem, please run 'cloud-init collect' and attach the output.

After doing so, please set the 'Status' back to 'New'.

If the bug is not present in current cloud-init, then you'll have to raise the issue with your distro.

Thanks
Scott

[Karen Davtyan (bipmedia)]

Thank you so much that's helped us. :)

[Karen Davtyan (bipmedia)]

Seems, its not working for CentOS6.9.

It's working only for the first boot time only.

[Karen Davtyan (bipmedia)]

additional info .

when i try to change login info or network config with cloud-init GUI, it does not effect, but when i do "cloud-init clean" and "cloud-init init" and "reboot" that's way new info being updated.

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

Karen,

At the moment, cloud-init only applies password settings from the instance user-data once per instance. So, If I understand you correctly it is largely operating as designed on Centos 6.9.

We are looking at adding new features to cloud-init that would allow such changes to happen more than once per instance, but that is not available currently.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for cloud-init because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[James Falcon (falcojr)]

Tracked in Github Issues as https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/issues/3202