API - Is there a way to reset LXC password

[yswery]

Hi Team

I was wondering if there is a way to reset the password to a container in proxmox 5.X using the PVE API?

I can you can (using terminal) pct enter XXX and then change password that way, however I am looking to be able to do in a more programmatic way and over a multi-node cluster (to avoid SSH into the right now just to set a password sort of deal)

 

[dietmar]

you can set the password when you create the container, but we do not allow that for existing containers.

 

[yswery]

Yep we are already doing this, however we are hoping to be able to give the client the ability to CHANGE/RESET their passwords without the need of reinstalling nor our manual intervention (pct into the container to change the pass)

Am I right in saying the only way to automate this process would be to set a script to SSH into the hostnode and then execute PCT command? or is there something more cleaner we can do especially considering the hostnodes are set in a cluster?

 

[dietmar]

Am I right in saying the only way to automate this process would be to set a script to SSH into the hostnode and then execute PCT command?

I would instead directly ssh into the container and do it there.