Comment 1 for bug 2043194

Hello Ethan,

Do you know why cloud-init is taking so much time? Is this expected on a low performance CPU?

The customization section is intentionally limited in the ubuntu-image configuration because it was intended to solve simple cases and let users handle more complex cases with cloud-init or custom packages.

Implementing this feature would probably not be too complex but I fear it may confuse users by offering multiple ways to solve a single problem. @sil2100 what do you think?

In the meantime, I think you can use a manual customization (copy-file + execute) to create the user, set the password and force the reset. Be careful though, the "add-user" customization is the last customization executed, so you cannot use it to create the user and expect to do the rest in the "execute" customization.