Hi all! One question regarding creating machines i...
# harvesterm
mammoth-evening-6464
06/13/2025, 9:51 PMHi all! One question regarding creating machines in a pool using rancher -> harvester. What is the ssh user field used for? It is required, but on the nodes that are created, I cannot find that user. Is it overwritten by a cloud-init default user maybe?
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bland-article-62755
06/13/2025, 10:21 PMI'm pretty sure you're suppose to put in the cloud image user.
bland-article-62755
06/13/2025, 10:21 PMFor example: Opensuse Leap is
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06/13/2025, 10:22 PMubuntufedorabland-article-62755
06/13/2025, 10:22 PMWhen you put in a key, it loads it under that user so you can log in.
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mammoth-evening-6464
06/13/2025, 10:31 PMhmm I see. opensuse user is the default user in the cloud image cloud-init config. I guess then I may have overwritten it with a custom default user in the user-data.
It's not causing an issue, I was just confused why the user is required if I can't find it afterwards 😄
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bland-article-62755
06/13/2025, 10:31 PMYou'd have to look in the cloudinit logs. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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mammoth-evening-6464
06/13/2025, 10:35 PMNetwork stack on my single node is a bit unstable, I have a hard time looking at anything/logs 😕 but it's ok, I'll figure it out
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bland-article-62755
06/13/2025, 10:37 PMIt might just be easier to use the standard user for now and create another user via ansible or something if you need to.
bland-article-62755
06/13/2025, 10:37 PMymmv
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thousands-advantage-10804
06/13/2025, 10:52 PMthat is typically the default username for THAT image.
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mammoth-evening-6464
06/14/2025, 5:04 PMhmm to be precise, which one is it? 🤔
1. I should put the default user name of the image as it is set in the image (e.g. opensuse, etc) because that is needed somehow
2. Whatever username I put in there will be the default user when the machine comes up
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bland-article-62755
06/14/2025, 5:24 PM1
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mammoth-evening-6464
06/14/2025, 5:27 PM😮 interesting. Is there some docs I can read up to understand this better? The harvester install docs don't really give indepth info 😕
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thousands-advantage-10804
06/14/2025, 5:41 PM1, that is the user Rancher will use to setup rke2,
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mammoth-evening-6464
06/14/2025, 5:44 PMoh man, that most likely explains A LOT 😄
mammoth-evening-6464
06/14/2025, 5:44 PMI have not been able to get a cluster to actually work
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thousands-advantage-10804
06/14/2025, 5:45 PMuse ubuntu? the default is
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06/14/2025, 5:45 PMopensuse is a pain. lol.
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mammoth-evening-6464
06/14/2025, 5:47 PMyea, I tried to use a leap qcow2 image and used my robot username in the SSH User field, but the cluster always stopped at "Waiting for the agent" or something similar.
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thousands-advantage-10804
06/14/2025, 5:48 PMtry the mainstream first..
thousands-advantage-10804
06/14/2025, 5:48 PMaka rocky, or ubuntu
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