Prompt user for Administrator/root password

[bugblatterbeast]

Hello All

Is it possible to prompt a user for a password for the Administrator (in Windows) or root (in linux) accounts in the "new Request" form which you can then use to set the respective account password on the deployed vCAC blueprint?

Thanks

Danny

[Craig_G2]

Why don't you have your machine provisioned WFStub create a random password, set in the OS and email the user... if you are worried about emailing passwords then you can always tap in to the Share a secret - One Time API.

I have a helper workflow called "vCAC Make Password" which is called from my main machine provisioned workflow:

passwd = Math.random().toString(36).slice(-8);

passwd is an output variable which is then passed to the new VM via an SSH session.

Works perfectly for our needs

[bugblatterbeast · Accepted solution]

After a bit of research (Googling ) I happened upon this very useful blog post which solved my requirements:-

http://extendingclouds.com/2014/04/28/how-bout-we-let-users-set-their-default-admin-or-root-password...

Danny