Cloud image ova for 20.04

[Jerry Geis]

On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 1:32 PM Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 7:04 AM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I downloaded:
>>
>> https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/focal/current/focal-server-cloudimg-amd64.ova
>>
>> for vmware I did :
>> File, open, browse to the ova above, and booted it.
>>
>> I get a login prompt
>>
>> I tried ubuntu, ubuntu and ubuntu as password
>>
>> What did I miss ? I thought just login ubuntu was the right login?
>>
>
> I know very little about this, but I followed the same steps you did, and
> discovered the image has no password in it at all.
>
> I believe you have a couple of options (maybe more!):
>
> The first option seems to be to install libguestfs-tools package which
> includes a virt-customize utility to customize the image to insert the
> password into the root account. I started to do that, but when I saw the
> utility has a lot of dependencies, I bailed. I tried the second (no other
> utilities needed) option....
>
> When the image is booting in VirtualBox, hold down your shift key to get
> the GRUB menu.
>
> Choose "Advanced Options for Ubuntu"
> Choose "Ubuntu, ...  (recovery mode)"
> In the Recovery Menu, Choose "root"
>
> When you get to the root menu, use passwd to give root a password.
>
> While you're there, you can go ahead and use adduser <username> to create
> a regular user, too.
>
> Now you can reboot, and your instance will have a root password and a
> regular user account if you created one.
>
>
> SOURCES (found using a popular search engine)
>
>
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/451673/default-username-password-for-ubuntu-cloud-image
>
>
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/1129499/ubuntu-18-04-ova-default-credentials
>
>
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Thanks Tommy - will try that.

Jerry
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