Hacking Ubuntu Cloud Image to Have Your Own User and Password

Hacking Cloud VM to use User password to Login

Most of cloud image use key-pair to login. It's really hard for a beginner.
There is a way to hack the cloud image to login with usual user and password without keypairs.
This is a greate tool for me.

Hacking the Cloud VM

Download backdoor-image

$bzr branch lp:~smoser/+junk/backdoor-image

You might need to install bzr through apt-get install bzr.

Into backdoor-image folder

$cd backdoor-image

Download a Ubuntu cloud image

$ wget http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/precise/current/precise-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img

cp image to a backup image

$cp precise-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img ubuntu12.04-server-cloudimg-amg64-disk1.img

Set the user and password to the cloud image

$./backdoor-image --user ubuntu --password ubuntu --password-auth ubuntu12.04-server-cloudimg-amg64-disk1.img

Perfectly