James Falcon

All good points. > Is there any reason why "passwd" should not be deprecated as "hashed_passwd" supports everything "passwd" does and more (i.e. setting password for existing users). The main...

Yeah, good point. I'd be in favor of deprecating it.

I'm still not entirely sure I understand the problem. I created a Noble VM on QEMU using the same version as the bug and used the reproducer as my cloud-config...

I'm not even entirely sure what `KillMode=process` accomplishes here. In the default case, forked processes won't get killed unless the parent service is manually stopped/killed.

I have thoughts...let's not merge this quite yet

nit: If we change `>>` to `>>>`, these would be valid doctest examples. We don't use it, but it'd be an easy way to gain test coverage for utility functions...

> boilerplate I don't think we need to include every field every time. E.g., there's a [stackoverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/a/24385103/37205) answer that has this: ```python """ This is a reST style. :param param1:...

@zhaohuijuan , there have been a few changes in the past year or so around dealing with this adapter on Azure. E.g., https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/1914 https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/2153 You mentioned some older versions of...

@zhaohuijuan , thanks for the response. I'll admit that I'm not very familiar with RHEL systems. Can you provide more detailed reproduction steps? How exactly did you launch the RHEL...

@holmanb > Part of the value of cloud-config is its (mostly) declarative nature, but that value is undercut because going back to a bash script is required frequently for trivial...