By Mike DeVita
Like the title says, for some reason this cloud config doesn’t finish… It creates the user with the right keys the run_cmd doesnt finish nor does the group creation… What am I missing?
Also how do you specify passwd: the doc’s state a password hash but i’m really not sure how to generate such a thing for a linux system.
#cloud-config
users:
- name: alpha
groups: sudo
shell: /bin/zsh
sudo: ['ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL']
ssh-authorized-keys:
- key1goeshere
groups:
- npm: [alpha]
packages:
- git
- vim
- zsh
- htop
run_cmd:
- curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup | sudo bash -
- apt-get install nodejs -y
- npm set prefix /usr/local
- chown -R /usr/lib/node/* /usr/local/bin /usr/local/lib
- chmod -R 2775 /usr/local/lib /usr/local/bin /usr/lib/node/*
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The commands do not run as the module should be runcmd not run_cmd One thing that has personally frustrated me when working with cloud-config files is that they are a bit inconsistent about naming.
As for the passwd, it takes a SHA-512 password hash. On a Unix system, you can generate that using:
mkpasswd --method=SHA-512 --rounds=4096
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