lxc container : password and username

Question

I am trying to run wine in a 64b OS ( LUNA ) so i did follow this guide ! to set up wine , and i did chose to follow the first option : lxc container

Problem arise when i have to run the container:

sudo lxc-start -n my32bitbox

I am asked for a user-name and a password that i do not know.

I did try : root/root; user:user; my-username at the OS:my-password at the OS; ubuntu:ubuntu etc etc etc .

But not luck so far. if someone out there can help me put here, I really appreciate.

Answer 1

Attention: this answer was correct at the time (2013), now it is not any longer: the correct way to do it is the one in Nanne's answer.

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From the reference you gave, it seems you are trying to set up an LXC in Ubuntu. If this is so, this easy-to-locate Web page tells you that default username/password pair in newly-minted LXC's are:

  username: ubuntu
  password: ubuntu

Answer 2

On newer installs, at least on my current install, you get this message instead of the old ubuntu/ubuntu message: (emph. mine)

You just created an Ubuntu container (release=trusty, arch=amd64, variant=default)

To enable sshd, run: apt-get install openssh-server

For security reason, container images ship without user accounts and without a root password.

Use lxc-attach or chroot directly into the rootfs to set a root password or create user accounts.

so how do you create a new user on a new LXC?

As hinted, you can either chroot into the rootfs, of use lxc-attach, which is the easiest option:

you@hostbox:/$ lxc-attach -n yourlxc
root@yourlxc:/# adduser username

Answer 3

The q. is pretty old, the other answers are too and it is yet again different. What we do use to access shell in a linux container is exec command - similar to what we have in kubes:

lxc exec <cont name> -- <cmd line>

if that is ubuntu then cmd line may be "bash" and it gives you a shell in a container as root.