subiquity

autoinstall with nocloud does not seed password when identity is interactive

Bug #1883180 reported by tylerecouture
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
cloud-init
Invalid
Undecided
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subiquity
Triaged
High
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Bug Description

I am using the [autoinstall process](https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/install/autoinstall) with nocloud provider. I want to manually enter the hostname, so have set the identity section to interactive. However, when I do this, the password section is blank instead of pre-seeded with the value provided. The other identity sections (hostname, username, realname) are preseeded as expected, when the interactive section comes up. Only the pw is missing.

1. Tell us your cloud provider: `ds=nocloud-net`
2. Any appropriate cloud-init configuration you can provide us:

*user-data*
```
#cloud-config
autoinstall:
  version: 1
  interactive-sections:
    - identity
  identity:
    hostname: change-me
    password: $6$xnH...
    username: admin
    realname: Admin
```

Tags: medium nocloud
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tylerecouture (tylerecouture) wrote :
tylerecouture (tylerecouture)
tags: added: nocloud
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Paride Legovini (paride) wrote :

Hi and thanks for filing this bug report.

I believe this is a bug in subiquity (the Ubuntu Server installer) rather than a bug in cloud-init. I am reassigning it.

Changed in cloud-init:
status: New → Incomplete
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson) wrote :

Hm I wonder what to do here. I can see the problem, otoh, we can't put the password in the form already because we don't know what it is. I guess we can put a few *s in the box to indicate that there _is_ a value. Or add a checkbox "use password from autoinstall". Or maybe something else...

Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson)
tags: added: medium
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tylerecouture (tylerecouture) wrote :

I think a few *'s would be intuitive for users.

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Joe Cooper (joe-virtualmin) wrote :

It's such a common use case to want to only ask for hostname, it's really frustrating that there's no way to do that. I mean, it's generally frustrating that all of the options are bundled into categories and you always have to make the whole section interactive, but this one option in particular is painful since you can't even pre-fill the password.

Filling with asterisks is an obvious solution, very widely used by other projects.

Dan Bungert (dbungert)
Changed in subiquity:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
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James Falcon (falcojr) wrote :

Tracked in Github Issues as https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/issues/3707

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