<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 1:32 PM Tommy Trussell <<a href="mailto:tommy.trussell@gmail.com">tommy.trussell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 7:04 AM Jerry Geis <<a href="mailto:jerry.geis@gmail.com" target="_blank">jerry.geis@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I downloaded:<div><a href="https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/focal/current/focal-server-cloudimg-amd64.ova" target="_blank">https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/focal/current/focal-server-cloudimg-amd64.ova</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>for vmware I did :</div><div>File, open, browse to the ova above, and booted it.</div><div><br></div><div>I get a login prompt</div><div><br></div><div>I tried ubuntu, ubuntu and ubuntu as password </div><div><br></div><div>What did I miss ? I thought just login ubuntu was the right login?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>I believe you have a couple of options (maybe more!):</div><div><br></div><div>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....</div><div><br></div><div>When the image is booting in VirtualBox, hold down your shift key to get the GRUB menu. </div><div><br></div><div>Choose "Advanced Options for Ubuntu"</div><div>Choose "Ubuntu, ... (recovery mode)"</div><div>In the Recovery Menu, Choose "root"</div><div><br></div><div>When you get to the root menu, use passwd to give root a password.</div><div><br></div><div>While you're there, you can go ahead and use adduser <username> to create a regular user, too.</div><div><br></div><div>Now you can reboot, and your instance will have a root password and a regular user account if you created one.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>SOURCES (found using a popular search engine)</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/451673/default-username-password-for-ubuntu-cloud-image" target="_blank">https://askubuntu.com/questions/451673/default-username-password-for-ubuntu-cloud-image</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/1129499/ubuntu-18-04-ova-default-credentials" target="_blank">https://askubuntu.com/questions/1129499/ubuntu-18-04-ova-default-credentials</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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