Can't activate administrator account

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So the Admin account is the account that's currently syncing password with NOVA and that account shows up perfectly fine, i'm trying to activate the hidden Administrator account which will activate once i login to the ADMIN account and run the net user command. I want to have both the Admin and the

administrator account installed into the image during the first install. So how can I have it activated the administrator account when creating the image through window-imaging-tool?

You need to set it a password after the image boots for the first time. You can either use cloudbase-init username=Administrator (but you will not have Admin user created) or you can use userdata scripts to set a password for Administrator. net user Administrator "YourStrongPassword" should do.

So we basically we have to choose between the Admin account or the Administrator account and we can't have both activate during the first boot?

I suggest to use userdata scripts or localscripts to automatically set the password for the user you require, but I do not recommend it, as the password will be in cleartext at some moment on the instance. If that is not an issue though, then it makes sense to use one of these suggestions.

Hello, first_logon_behaviour how to: https://cloudbase-init.readthedocs.io/en/latest/plugins.html#setting-password-main So you cannot set your password in clear text there. Here is the information you need to set the password using OpenStack:https://cloudbase.it/openstack-windows-admin-password/

And you have a valid point on the fact that currently there is no automated way to specify the localscripts for cloudbase-init to run from the windows imaging tools. I have opened an issue here to track the functionality: https://github.com/cloudbase/windows-openstack-imaging-tools/issues/132