[08:34] <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
[08:36] <aciba> Hi Guest1337, can you log in with the default user? if so can you share the contents of /var/log/cloud-init.log ?
[08:54] <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
[08:55] <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
[09:27] <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
[09:28] <aciba> the cc_users_groups module tries to add the olof user:
[09:29] <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 ?
[09:30] <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
[09:32] <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?
[09:40] <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
[09:48] <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.
[09:49] <Guest1337> aciba: yes that will work.
[09:52] <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
[09:53] <aciba> but user-data + vendor-data will always be plainly merged
[09:54] <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
[09:57] <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
[10:28] <Guest1337> Okay, Ill just use either one of them.
[10:29] <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.
[12:36] <minimal> Guest1337: you're embedding network configuration in metadata file? only ENI (legacy) format is supported for this
[12:38] <Guest1337> minimal: yes. Is this the wrong approach? Whats the best approach to apply network config to an ubuntu vm? (using vcenter ova wizard)
[12:39] <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)
[12:40] <minimal> s/OVA/OVF/
[12:43] <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
[12:44] <minimal> Guest1337: BTW you have noticed that your logfile shows errors when cloud-init tries to run vmware-rpctool and vmtoolsd, right?
[12:49] <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?
[12:50] <minimal> well I'm not using OVF datasource
[12:51] <minimal> how metadata, network config etc are provided is datasource-specific
[16:26] <Steve37> holmanb I'm back! finally got around to trying a fake optional interface in network-config and amazingly it works.
[18:51] <holmanb> Steve37: looks like you're gone again but maybe you'll see this in the logs
[18:52] <holmanb> Steve37: thanks for reporting your results on the issue on github