Configuring Cloud-Init 0.7.5

Add the key-value pair no_ssh_fingerprints: true and ensure that it has a blank row before and after it.
```
no_ssh_fingerprints: true
```
Set the value of ssh_pwauth to false. This parameter specifies whether SSH password login is supported. If it is set to false, SSH password login is disabled.
```
ssh_pwauth: false
```
Add preserve_hostname: false.
```
preserve_hostname: false
```

Use the number sign (#) to comment out the following fields:

mount_default_fields: [~, ~, 'auto', 'defaults,nofail', '0', '2']
resize_rootfs_tmp: /dev
ssh_deletekeys:   0

Change the value of ssh_genkeytypes to ['rsa', 'dsa'].
```
ssh_genkeytypes: ['rsa', 'dsa']
```
Change the value of syslog_fix_perms to root:root.
```
syslog_fix_perms: root:root
```

Add the following content:

network:
   config: disabled
datasource_list: [ OpenStack ]

For Ubuntu 14.04, do not add the following information:

datasource_list: [ OpenStack ]

Add the following content after - final-message in cloud_final_modules:
```
- power-state-change
```

Modify the content under system info as follows:

system_info:
   default_user:
     name: linux   //Username for logging in to the OS
     lock_passwd: True   //True indicates that password login is disabled. In some OSs, 1 indicates that password login is disabled.
     gecos: redhat
     groups: [audio, cdrom, dialout, floppy]   //(Optional) This parameter specifies the groups to which the user is added. The values must be groups that exist in the etc/group of the OS.
     sudo: ["ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL"]   //The user has all permissions of user root.
     shell: /bin/bash   //The bash command is used to execute the shell script.
   distro: sles
    paths:
      cloud_dir: /var/lib/cloud/
      templates_dir: /etc/cloud/templates/
      upstart_dir: /etc/init/
    ssh_svcname: sshd

The value of distro varies depending on the OS and can be sles, rhel, ubuntu, debian, or fedora.

(Optional) For Ubuntu 14.04, perform the following operations:
1. Use the vi editor to open the /etc/init/cloud-init-local.conf configuration file and modify the following configuration items:
```
# cloud-init - the initial cloud-init job
#   crawls metadata service, emits cloud-config
start on mounted MOUNTPOINT=/ and mounted MOUNTPOINT=/run and stopped bms-network_config
```
2. Run the following command to configure the OpenStack source:
  dpkg-reconf igure cloud-init
  
  Run the vim /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/90_dpkg.cfg command to open the configuration file and check the configuration items.
```
# to update this file, run dpkg-reconf igure cloud-init
datasource_list: [ OpenStack ]
~
~
~
```
  If the preceding information is displayed, the configuration is successful.

Parent topic: Configuring Cloud-Init

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