[ovirt-users] user can see other user's vms

Michal Skrivanek michal.skrivanek at redhat.com
Wed Jul 26 12:45:07 UTC 2017


> On 26 Jul 2017, at 15:39, Ondra Machacek <omachace at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> one possible way is to add PowerUserRole to user on datacenter where you want
> the users to operate. That way, they only can create VMs from
> templates which are
> public or they have direct permissions on and if the VM is created they can use
> only that VM, and not any other.
> 
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Hari Gowtham <hgowtham at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> we have been trying to use ovirt to let the other devs in our team
>> spawn vms and use it.
>> we are nearly done with the setup. we have the hosted engine up,
>> created gluster volumes and now we have setup the login to the portal
>> too. While trying to spawn vms we noticed that,
>> The admin can view, start or stop the vms on the machines which is fine.
>> But we can see that the users can see each other user's vms too.
>> This will make it possible for one user to start or stop other user's
>> vm which we don't want to happen.
>> we need to avoid this situation were one user has access to other user's vm.
>> A particular user should be able to see the vms created by him alone
>> So that he will have the ability to stop his own vms alone. What is
>> the best way to create this setup?

is that within the admin portal? That’s for dmins which have visibility (not necessarily control) to all VMs/infrastructure
There’s the User Portal (VM Portal since 4.1) for regular “powerless” user which can see only their VMs

Thanks,
michal

>> 
>> Is this the way it was designed to work or have i done something wrong here?
>> Do let me know.
>> 
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Hari Gowtham.
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