[Feature] - Allow setting root password

[thehunmonkgroup]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
There is no way currently to set the root password that ends up in the snapshot. This is problematic, as if VMs created from the snapshot have network issues, it's much harder to log in via the NoVNC feature.

Describe the solution you'd like
A simple root_password parameter which would then be passed to the server creation that the snapshot is built from.

[mkrn]

Any workarounds to this? Currently not able to sign in to created instances at all. It requires password even though I've added pub key to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and added SSH key through Vultr panel

[ddymko]

@mkrn

The work around now to change the PW would be to run

chpasswd --encrypted << 'EOF'
root:<hashed-password-here>
EOF

We'll work on getting root_password parameter added in quickly and hopefully have a new release be EOW

[ddymko]

Hey @mkrn I did some digging into this and supporting root password isn't something that we will be able to do since the API doesn't support this.

You will have to continue to use a script such as

chpasswd --encrypted << 'EOF'
root:<hashed-password-here>
EOF

to provision the PW