What is the default user and password when using `lxc launch --console`?

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Created a container with

lxc launch --ephemeral --console ubuntu:lts ubuntu

and I’m currently stuck at ubuntu login:. Can’t even exit the prompt (CTRL+C and CTRL+D are not working).

I can kill the shell, call the command again without --console, and just use --exec after container creation, but at this point I’m curious what I’m doing wrong.

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This is dependent on whether the image you have used has user password set. The LXD provided images do not, but you can set one manually or use cloud-init.

The images from ubuntu: remote may have a default password but I’m not sure.

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