Adding a user with Cloud-Init

kurotan — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 02:44:35 GMT

User information is specified in the virtual image (qcow2) with Cloud-init enabled. (For example, User01)
Also, a user for authentication is specified in Cloud-Init Settings in Administration-Provisioning. (For example, sysadmin)

According to the documentation, authentication should be performed with the user specified in Cloud-Init Settings (sysadmin), and the user specified in the virtual image (User01) should be added, but it seems that the user is not added to the provisioned VM.
When provisioning, "CREATE YOUR USER" is checked in the User Config item.

Is there something specified incorrectly?

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=sd00006472en_us&page=GUID-429877DA-255E-41FC-86B6-E7069B0EE7A6.html

Re: Adding a user with Cloud-Init

kurotan — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 04:34:37 GMT

Further information.

I downloaded a Cloud-Init enabled image from "https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/noble/current/" and created a "metadata.json" file by imitating other images.

I uploaded it to a virtual image and provisioned the instance.

As a result, when "CREATE YOUR USER" was not checked, the "sysadmin" user and "User01" were added. When "CREATE YOUR USER" was checked, only the "sysadmin" user was added.

Isn't it correct that by enabling the checkbox, sysadmin/User01 are created, and by disabling it, only sysadmin is created?

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