Debian 13 Cloud Image

[ChrisJM]

Has anyone got a decent Debian 13 cloud image with ssh enabled for password?

It seems like Debian Cloud Images doesnt now come with ssh installed

Would be grateful if anyone can provide one.

 

[fba]

Easiest way would be to use the official image and assign a ssh pub key via cloud-init.
If you really need password based login right from start, you might use cloud-init to update the config file.
The required entry in the user-data is ssh_pwauth: true

 

[bbgeek17]

@fba is correct. For several OS generations now, official cloud images have disabled password authentication by default. SSH key authentication is the standard. Beyond that, custom cloud-init is extremely powerful and can be used to customize virtually any aspect of the OS.

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[ChrisJM]

Its not the ssh password.. SSH is not even installed..

 

[jtru]

Official Debian Cloud images are available from https://cloud.debian.org/images/cloud/ - each image comes with a JSON document describing its content, so you can see that, for example, the "genericcloud"-variant comes with openssh-server pre-deployed: https://cloud.debian.org/images/cloud/trixie/latest/debian-13-genericcloud-amd64.json

 

[gfngfn256]

See my thread on "Create a VM Template for a Debian Trixie Server with Cloud-Init".
There, I go through the process of adjusting the image to allow SSH PasswordAuthentication.

 

[bbgeek17]

Its not the ssh password.. SSH is not even installed..

I'd be curious to know where did you get the Cloud image that does not include the ssh.
Regardless, you can build your CI snippet to install and start it: https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/modules.html#package-update-upgrade-install

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