Provide password option to 'juju register' and automatically add to accounts.yaml

[Haw Loeung]

Hi,

On creating a new user on a Juju controller, we're presented with a command to run 'juju register' with a base64-encoded blob. On running this command, it prompts for a password 3 times (new, confirm, and to use).

The prompts:

| user@host:~$ juju register MIHc...
| Enter a new password:
| Confirm password:
| Enter a name for this controller [controller]:
| Initial password successfully set for myuser.
| please enter password for myuser on controller:
|
| Welcome, myuser. You are now logged into "controller".

Any chance of adding an option to pass through a password avoiding these 3 prompts? This lets us easily automate (without expect and such).

[Paul Collins (pjdc)]

And then we have to edit ~/.local/share/juju/accounts.yaml and add the password to the relevant stanza so that we don't have to keep logging in (or have our cron jobs that run against the model start failing when the cookie or whatever expires).

[Tim McNamara (tim-clicks)]

This sounds like a really good suggestion. I'm tagging it as wishlist until it can be triaged and scheduled properly.

[Haw Loeung (hloeung)]

Oh yeah, automatically updating accounts.yaml with said password would also be useful.

[Canonical Juju QA Bot (juju-qa-bot)]

This bug has not been updated in 2 years, so we're marking it Low importance. If you believe this is incorrect, please update the importance.