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Category: Operating Systems

Resetting root password in Ubuntu 22.04 from those pesky openstack images

Dec 3, 2024

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keijo

in Notes, Ubuntu

One of the ‘perks’ of spinning up a VM from a precompiled Ubuntu image in the catalog is that it may come with a pre-filled root password that needs changing to give us root access from QEMU when the instance is created in a private network without an elastic IP. My personal approach to google…
Friendship with netplan has ended. NetworkManager is my new best friend

Oct 21, 2023

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by

keijo

in Networking, Notes, Operating Systems, Ubuntu

Insert relevant meme here. Let’s face it. When installing a new OVH box with Ubuntu 22.04, Netplan/networkd does a lousy job at setting it up with ipv4 and ipv6. One has to run through hoops of Ctrl+Alt+F2 and throw in some route add voodoo for the IP address and default route to actually ‘talk’ outside,…