cloud-init

Set Passwords documentation describes incorrect behaviour for `password` config key

Bug #1838794 reported by Dan Watkins on 2019-08-02

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	cloud-init	Fix Released	Low	Dan Watkins

Bug Description

In https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/modules.html#set-passwords, we have the sentence:

    If expire is specified and is set to false, then the password
    global config key is used as the password for all user
    accounts.

This, thankfully, is _not_ the actual behaviour; we set the given password only on the default user.

(I'm going to fix this soon, just filing a bug because it came up mid-code-review and I don't want to lose track of it.)

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~oddbloke/cloud-init/+git/cloud-init:ubuntu/devel

Merged into cloud-init:ubuntu/devel at revision ba7b33b48d5dfc9f786f55778877922625cac00a

Ryan Harper: Approve on 2019-08-09

~oddbloke/cloud-init/+git/cloud-init:doc

Merged into cloud-init:master

Server Team CI bot: Approve (continuous-integration) on 2019-08-07

Ryan Harper: Approve on 2019-08-06

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Server Team CI bot (server-team-bot) wrote on 2019-08-07:

This bug is fixed with commit 88092eea to cloud-init on branch master.
To view that commit see the following URL:
https://git.launchpad.net/cloud-init/commit/?id=88092eea

Changed in cloud-init:
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

do3meli (d-info-e) on 2019-10-04

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added: docs

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Chad Smith (chad.smith) wrote on 2019-12-19: Fixed in cloud-init version 19.2-6.

This bug is believed to be fixed in cloud-init in version 19.2-6. If this is still a problem for you, please make a comment and set the state back to New

Thank you.