1

I am having a hard time getting the supposedly randomly generated passwd for the amd64 qcow2 image here:

https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/16.04/release/

I found the (perhaps outdated?) instructions here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEC/Images

Things seem to have changed, and I don't see the line in the console output, and ctrl-alt-3 for serial console doesn't work for me (i entered via virsh console vm_name).

Improve this question

1 Answer 1

Reset to default
0

You can use libguestfs-tool to clear the root passwd.

    sudo apt install libguestfs-tools
    virt-edit -a disk.img /etc/passwd -e 's/^root:.*?:/root::/'

See http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-recipes.1.html under "Remove root password (Linux)"

But why can't Ubuntu just put up a decent page on how to use their CloudImages for novices???

Improve this answer

You must log in to answer this question.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged .