User Accounts

Learn more about provisioning user accounts on Virtual Servers.

User accounts can be provisioned onto Virtual Servers in a few different ways. You can add as many user accounts as you like to your Virtual Servers.

Important

Users created on Virtual Servers are automatically given administrative privileges (sudo access).

Cloud UI

Deployment method: CoreWeave Cloud UI

From the CoreWeave Cloud UI Virtual Server deployment menu, click the Users expandable.

The first user account created will be used as the first administrative user account on the Virtual Server, and can be configured to use either an SSH public key or a password for authentication.

A username and password is presented as the default - to switch to using an SSH key, click "Use SSH" beside the password field.

Additional user accounts may either be added using the UI, or they may be provisioned in the YAML manifest editor under the users block:

This users block is a YAML list, in which usernames and passwords or SSH public keys can be included. Multiple users in this configuration may look something like this example:

{5}

users:
  - username: 'jill'
    password: '93jrwnffdk'
  - username: 'jack'
    sshpublickey: AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAklOUpkDHrfHY17SbrmTIpNLTGK9Tjom/BWDSUGPl+nafzlHDTYW7hdI4yZ5ew18JH4JW9jbhUFrviQzM7xlELEVf4h9lFX5QVkbPppSwg0cda3Pbv7kOdJ/MTyBlWXFCR+HAo3FXRitBqxiX1nKhXpHAZsMciLq8V6RjsNAQwdsdMFvSlVK/7XAt3FaoJoAsncM1Q9x5+3V0Ww68/eIFmb1zuUFljQJKprrX88XypNDvjYNby6vw/Pb0rwert/EnmZ+AW4OZPnTPI89ZPmVMLuayrD2cE86Z/il8b+gw3r3+1nKatmIkjn2so1d01QraTlMqVSsbxNrRFi9wrf+M7Q==

CLI

Deployment method: Kubernetes CLI

User accounts are created using the Kubernetes CLI by adding their information to the users stanza of the spec.

Example

  users:
    - username: SET YOUR USERNAME HERE
      password: SET YOUR PASSWORD HERE
       To use key-based authentication, replace and uncomment SSH-RSA below with your public SSH key
      # sshpublickey: |
        ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAA ... user@hostname

Terraform

Deployment method: Terraform

The Virtual Server's user account options are configured as variables passed into the Virtual Server Terraform module.

User account configuration options

The table below describes all available configuration options for user accounts on Virtual Servers.

Variable name	Variable type	Description	Default value
vs_username	String	The name of the user to create.	linux
vs_password	String	User-defined password for the user account. ⚠️ vs_generate_password must be set to false.	ubuntu2004-docker-master-20210601-ord1 (The Ubuntu 20.04 image stored in the Chicago region.)
vs_generate_password	Boolean	Whether or not to randomly generate a user password for the user account.	true

Example in plain text:

Example

variable "vs_username" {
  description = "Virtual Server username"
}

variable "vs_password" {
  type        = string
  default     = "null"
  description = "User provided password (vs_generate_password must be set to false)"
}

variable "vs_generate_password" {
  type        = bool
  default     = true
  description = "Generate password"