Re: Debian qcow2 image username and password

[Steve McIntyre]

Hi Guillermo,

On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 10:48:05PM +0000, Guillermo Zuniga wrote:
>
>We have downloaded the debian image:
>debian-10-genericcloud-amd64-20230917-1506.qcow2, and we have deployed it on a
>virtual machine in the cloud, however we cannot access the operating system
>since it asks us for the username and password of authentication. Could you
>tell us what the authentication username and password are or the procedure to
>generate a username and password on the qcow2 image.

The cloud team are responsible for that image (in CC). AFAIK you need
to use cloud-init to set up authentication via SSH key - see

https://wiki.debian.org/Cloud/#What_is_the_default_user_name_on_the_Debian_cloud_images.3F

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