[BlueOnyx:12105] Re: SSH login in BlueOnyx OpenVZ container not working

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Manuel,

> We are using the OpenVZ template with BlueOnyx on Centos 6.3 (as
> downloaded from http://devel.blueonyx.it/openvz/). After setting up a
> new Vserver, it is impossible to log into it via SSH. The default
> password on these containers should be "blueonyx", but that doesn't
> work. Even if I set a custom password using "vzctl set --userpasswd" or
> if I use "vzctl enter" and then change the password from inside the
> VServer, I still cannot log in. The log file in /var/log/secure always
> sais "failed password".
> 
> Additionally, the BlueOnyx configuration page on port 444 also doesn't
> work. It only displays the intro and won't do anything if I click
> "Start". I think that this is related to the SSH problem, because the
> configuration page also relies on the password being "blueonyx".

The typical procedure for using the BlueOnyx OS template on OpenVZ is this:

1.) Deploy the VPS using the OS template.

2.) Set password for user "admin" and "root" to "blueonyx". Just setting
it for one of them is not sufficient.

3.) When the VPS has started, point your browser to the main IP of the
VPS. Click on the "start" button and finish the web based setup. In the
web based setup you can then set the "admin" password to something else.
This will also reset the "root" password to the same as the new "admin"
password.

Once that is done, you can SSH into the VPS. Likewise, you can of course
use "vzctl enter <vpsid>" at any time to jump from the OpenVZ master
node into the BlueOnyx VPS, which requires no further authentication for
doing so.

> I first assumed that the password that is set by OpenVZ in /etc/shadow
> is just ignored and that the real password hash is stored somewhere else

No, BlueOnyx uses /etc/shadow. The problem is probably that you just set
the "root" password and not the "admin" password, too.


-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber