| Guest1337 | I am using vmware and ubuntu 24.04. I am trying to create a user and set a clearetext password, but its failing at failed to set passwords with chpasswd for my_adm. Here is my vendor-data file https://pastebin.com/Lhe0vjRc | 08:34 |
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| aciba | Hi Guest1337, can you log in with the default user? if so can you share the contents of /var/log/cloud-init.log ? | 08:36 |
| Guest1337 | aciba thanks for quick response. I have one user defined in user-data, and one user defined in vendor-data, where I also use chpasswd. the user defined in user-data is created and I can login with it. The user in vendor-data is never created. Here is log: https://pastebin.com/adsdpqMH after I ran cloud-init clean, init and modules --mode-config | 08:54 |
| Guest1337 | Mind you, this is the first time I am using cloud-init, so I dont know if I am doing stuff in the best practise way | 08:55 |
| aciba | I see, you are running on OVH. There is one error while the datasource is fetching the metadata from the cloud, I am not sure if related to your isse | 09:27 |
| aciba | * issue | 09:27 |
| aciba | then there is no mention to adding the my_adm user in the logs | 09:27 |
| aciba | the cc_users_groups module tries to add the olof user: | 09:28 |
| aciba | 2024-07-16 08:42:46,079 - distros[INFO]: User olof already exists, skipping. | 09:29 |
| aciba | it looks like your user-data is not correctly pulled by cloud-init | 09:29 |
| Guest1337 | When I put all users in vendor-data or all users in user-data, I get the desired result. Maybe some errors with merging. | 09:29 |
| aciba | Guest1337: what's the output of cloud-init query userdata ? | 09:29 |
| Guest1337 | I also tried to add merge_how: | 09:30 |
| Guest1337 | users: "list(append)" in the user-data file, that worked, but it broke other directives in user-data - eg it didnt add my hostname | 09:30 |
| aciba | `cloud-init query combined_cloud_config` gives you the fully merged cloud-config | 09:32 |
| aciba | and `cloud-init query vendordata` the vendor-data | 09:32 |
| aciba | is your users config within any of those? | 09:32 |
| aciba | I see, you can also add a `users:\n -default` followed by your new user to either userdata or vendordata | 09:40 |
| aciba | see https://docs.cloud-init.io/en/latest/reference/modules.html#users-and-groups | 09:40 |
| aciba | Guest1337: I mean using this: https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/MTXtMjNjy5/ as either vendor or user data. Does that solves your issue? | 09:48 |
| Guest1337 | if I clean, init and query, then if I am using users both in vendor-data and user-data, there seem to be some merge conflict, and nothing from user-data is applied. It does not help to use merge_how. | 09:48 |
| Guest1337 | If I put both users in user-data, or both users in vendor data, everything works as expected. | 09:48 |
| Guest1337 | aciba: yes that will work. | 09:49 |
| aciba | About the merge_how, the merging strategies acts upon multiple configs of the same cathegory, that is, it specifies how to merge multiple instances of user-data or vendor-data together | 09:52 |
| aciba | example: merging user-data1 with user-data2 with merge_how x | 09:52 |
| aciba | but user-data + vendor-data will always be plainly merged | 09:53 |
| Guest1337 | So if I called my user directive in both files something else, such as vendorusers and localusers, I could merge them as users? | 09:54 |
| aciba | it is not about the name, it's about if they are user or vendor data | 09:54 |
| aciba | Guest1337: this same issue happend here: https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/issues/5112 | 09:57 |
| -ubottu:#cloud-init- Issue 5112 in canonical/cloud-init "merging user data sections not work" [Open] | 09:57 | |
| aciba | 5112 is kept to improve the documentation regarding merge | 09:57 |
| Guest1337 | Okay, Ill just use either one of them. | 10:28 |
| Guest1337 | Now, my next problem is that my network configuration is never applied / read. https://pastebin.com/0a7KuTCX ens192 is the name of my only network card. | 10:29 |
| minimal | Guest1337: you're embedding network configuration in metadata file? only ENI (legacy) format is supported for this | 12:36 |
| Guest1337 | minimal: yes. Is this the wrong approach? Whats the best approach to apply network config to an ubuntu vm? (using vcenter ova wizard) | 12:38 |
| minimal | I'm not familiar with OVA/VMware, normally I'd supply a separate network-config file in either v1 or v2 format (for NoCloud) | 12:39 |
| minimal | s/OVA/OVF/ | 12:40 |
| minimal | hmm, seems that v1/v2 *may* indeed be supported for VMware DataSource: https://vdc-repo.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/c9e49fd1-322b-4c80-97ce-9c2a4f51d5ea/f5135739-7dca-4c6b-bc4e-c926b3d11ae8/GUID-316F0C90-B206-45CF-A5CF-4B51746F3F66.html | 12:43 |
| minimal | Guest1337: BTW you have noticed that your logfile shows errors when cloud-init tries to run vmware-rpctool and vmtoolsd, right? | 12:44 |
| Guest1337 | Im going to be honest and say that Im in deep waters here, as its first time I try to look into all of this :) Can you give me an example of how youre supplying an separate network-config file? | 12:49 |
| minimal | well I'm not using OVF datasource | 12:50 |
| minimal | how metadata, network config etc are provided is datasource-specific | 12:51 |
| Steve37 | holmanb I'm back! finally got around to trying a fake optional interface in network-config and amazingly it works. | 16:26 |
| holmanb | Steve37: looks like you're gone again but maybe you'll see this in the logs | 18:51 |
| holmanb | Steve37: thanks for reporting your results on the issue on github | 18:52 |
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