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Import the following files from the former config-reference [1]: api.rst cells.rst fibre-channel.rst hypervisor-basics.rst hypervisor-hyper-v.rst hypervisor-kvm.rst hypervisor-lxc.rst hypervisor-qemu.rst hypervisor-virtuozzo.rst hypervisor-vmware.rst hypervisor-xen-api.rst hypervisor-xen-libvirt.rst hypervisors.rst index.rst iscsi-offload.rst logs.rst resize.rst samples/api-paste.ini.rst samples/index.rst samples/policy.yaml.rst samples/rootwrap.conf.rst schedulers.rst The below files are skipped as they're already included, in slightly different forms, in the nova documentation. config-options.rst nova-conf-samples.rst nova-conf.rst nova.conf Part of bp: doc-migration Change-Id: I145e38149bf20a5e068f8cfe913f90c7ebeaad36
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Compute API configuration
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The Compute API, run by the ``nova-api`` daemon, is the component of OpenStack
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Compute that receives and responds to user requests, whether they be direct API
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calls, or via the CLI tools or dashboard.
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Configure Compute API password handling
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The OpenStack Compute API enables users to specify an administrative password
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when they create or rebuild a server instance. If the user does not specify a
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password, a random password is generated and returned in the API response.
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In practice, how the admin password is handled depends on the hypervisor in use
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and might require additional configuration of the instance. For example, you
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might have to install an agent to handle the password setting. If the
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hypervisor and instance configuration do not support setting a password at
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server create time, the password that is returned by the create API call is
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misleading because it was ignored.
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To prevent this confusion, use the ``enable_instance_password`` configuration
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option to disable the return of the admin password for installations that do
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not support setting instance passwords.
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