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Dear oVirt-Community,
how can I add a new User? If I click "Add" under the "Users"-Tag of
the web=
interface, I cannot create a new user. If I start a search, only the user =
"admin" is displayed.
Is it maybe not possible to create users out of oVirt?
Even users which I added locally (on the fedora host which runs the ovirt e=
ngine) are not displayed.
Can you only manage users if oVirt is connected to a Red Hat Directory Serv=
er or IBM Tivoli Directory Server?
Best regards
Dennis
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a new User? If I =
click “Add” under the “Users”-Tag of the web
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ace, I cannot create a new user. If I start a search, only the user “=
admin” is displayed.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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not possible to cre=
ate users out of oVirt?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-US">Even users
which I added locall=
y (on the fedora host which runs the ovirt engine) are not displayed.<o:p><=
/o:p></span></p>
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regards<o:p></o:p></span><=
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<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-US">Dennis
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Böck" <dennis(a)webdienstleistungen.com>
To: "users(a)oVirt.org" <users(a)ovirt.org>
Sent: Monday, December 3, 2012 8:51:33 AM
Subject: [Users] Manage users without Red Hat Directory Server or IBM Tivoli Directory
Server?
Dear oVirt-Community,
how can I add a new User? If I click “Add” under the “Users”-Tag of
the web interface, I cannot create a new user. If I start a search,
only the user “admin” is displayed.
Is it maybe not possible to create users out of oVirt?
Even users which I added locally (on the fedora host which runs the
ovirt engine) are not displayed.
Can you only manage users if oVirt is connected to a Red Hat
Directory Server or IBM Tivoli Directory Server?
oVirt indeed doesn't support managing internal users (the only internal user
is admin@internal user).
It allows you to work with several directory providers (IPA, Active Directory, RHDS, IBM
Tivoli DS), and you should manage your users there.
Let me know if you have more questions regarding that.
Oved
Best regards
Dennis
_______________________________________________
Users mailing list
Users(a)ovirt.org
http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
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On 12/03/2012 08:51 AM, Dennis Böck wrote:
Dear oVirt-Community,
how can I add a new User? If I click "Add" under the "Users"-Tag of
the web interface, I cannot create a new user. If I start a search,
only the user "admin" is displayed.
Is it maybe not possible to create users out of oVirt?
ovirt user-management relies on external directories - currently
supported Red Hat IPA, Active Directory, RHDS and IBM Tivoli.
to add a user one must first provision his domain (with LDAP and
Kerberos) using ovirt using engine-manage-domains tool.
http://www.ovirt.org/Building_oVirt_engine#Deploying_engine-config_.26_en...
Even users which I added locally (on the fedora host which runs the
ovirt engine) are not displayed.
Can you only manage users if oVirt is connected to a Red Hat Directory
Server or IBM Tivoli Directory Server?
Best regards
Dennis
_______________________________________________
Users mailing list
Users(a)ovirt.org
http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/03/2012 08:51 AM, Dennis
Böck
wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">how can I
add a new
User? If I click “Add” under the
“Users”-Tag of the web
interface, I cannot create a new user. If I start a search,
only the user “admin” is displayed.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Is it
maybe not possible
to create users out of oVirt?</span></p>
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ovirt user-management relies on external directories - currently
supported Red Hat IPA, Active Directory, RHDS and IBM Tivoli.<br>
to add a user one must first provision his domain (with LDAP and
Kerberos) using ovirt using engine-manage-domains tool.<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.ovirt.org/Building_oVirt_engine#Deploying_engine-co...
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which I added
locally (on the fedora host which runs the ovirt engine) are
not displayed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Can you
only manage
users if oVirt is connected to a Red Hat Directory Server or
IBM Tivoli Directory Server?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Best
regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dennis
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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6:44 p.m.
On 12/03/2012 08:51 AM, Dennis Böck wrote:
Dear oVirt-Community,
how can I add a new User? If I click “Add” under the “Users”-Tag of the
web interface, I cannot create a new user. If I start a search, only the
user “admin” is displayed.
Is it maybe not possible to create users out of oVirt?
Even users which I added locally (on the fedora host which runs the
ovirt engine) are not displayed.
Can you only manage users if oVirt is connected to a Red Hat Directory
Server or IBM Tivoli Directory Server?
can you please explain the use case where there is no existing directory
to handle group membership and authentication?
thanks,
Itamar
3:48 a.m.
Dear Itamar,
we (German Air Navigation Services) would like to use oVirt for testing our air traffic
applications.
In our air traffic application system, there is no directory service, since we don't
need one. Consequently our test system has no directory service too.
We differentiate only between root-users (manage the OS), air traffic application
operational-users and air traffic application technical-users.
For three kinds of users a directory service would mean too much overhead.
oVirt is complex enough, therefore it would be advantegous to have a simple
user-management without the need to install/configure/run a directory service
infrastructure.
Best regards
Dennis
________________________________________
Von: Itamar Heim [iheim(a)redhat.com]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2012 00:44
An: Dennis Böck
Cc: users(a)oVirt.org
Betreff: Re: [Users] Manage users without Red Hat Directory Server or IBM Tivoli Directory
Server?
On 12/03/2012 08:51 AM, Dennis Böck wrote:
Dear oVirt-Community,
how can I add a new User? If I click “Add” under the “Users”-Tag of the
web interface, I cannot create a new user. If I start a search, only the
user “admin” is displayed.
Is it maybe not possible to create users out of oVirt?
Even users which I added locally (on the fedora host which runs the
ovirt engine) are not displayed.
Can you only manage users if oVirt is connected to a Red Hat Directory
Server or IBM Tivoli Directory Server?
can you please explain the use case where there is no existing directory
to handle group membership and authentication?
thanks,
Itamar
4:01 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Böck" <dennis(a)webdienstleistungen.com>
To: "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com>
Cc: "users(a)oVirt.org" <users(a)ovirt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 10:48:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Users] Manage users without Red Hat Directory Server or IBM Tivoli
Directory Server?
Dear Itamar,
we (German Air Navigation Services) would like to use oVirt for
testing our air traffic applications.
In our air traffic application system, there is no directory service,
since we don't need one. Consequently our test system has no
directory service too.
We differentiate only between root-users (manage the OS), air traffic
application operational-users and air traffic application
technical-users.
For three kinds of users a directory service would mean too much
overhead.
oVirt is complex enough, therefore it would be advantegous to have a
simple user-management without the need to install/configure/run a
directory service infrastructure.
Best regards
Dennis
Hi Dennis,
From what you're describing - you have to populate oVirt somehow
with 3 groups -
root-users, air trafdfic application operational-users and air
traffic application technical-users.
Not sure if you have technical developers at your organization, but at past we developed
an internal broker [1] which is not Ldap/Directory-Service based.
We have future thoughts about supporting not just directory services.
But for now - perhaps the quickest thing for you guys (if you have a technical team of
developers) is to write your own broker, similar to the internal broker).
I actually saw a non ldap broker that was implemented based on the way the internal broker
was implemented.
But I really think you should reconsider your decision NOT to use ldap directory-service
[1] - Internal broker - the piece of code responsible for the admin@interal user
Yair
________________________________________
Von: Itamar Heim [iheim(a)redhat.com]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2012 00:44
An: Dennis Böck
Cc: users(a)oVirt.org
Betreff: Re: [Users] Manage users without Red Hat Directory Server or
IBM Tivoli Directory Server?
On 12/03/2012 08:51 AM, Dennis Böck wrote:
> Dear oVirt-Community,
>
> how can I add a new User? If I click “Add” under the “Users”-Tag of
> the
> web interface, I cannot create a new user. If I start a search,
> only the
> user “admin” is displayed.
>
> Is it maybe not possible to create users out of oVirt?
>
> Even users which I added locally (on the fedora host which runs the
> ovirt engine) are not displayed.
>
> Can you only manage users if oVirt is connected to a Red Hat
> Directory
> Server or IBM Tivoli Directory Server?
>
can you please explain the use case where there is no existing
directory
to handle group membership and authentication?
thanks,
Itamar
_______________________________________________
Users mailing list
Users(a)ovirt.org
http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
4:50 a.m.
On 12/05/2012 11:01 AM, Yair Zaslavsky wrote:
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dennis Böck" <dennis(a)webdienstleistungen.com>
> To: "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com>
> Cc: "users(a)oVirt.org" <users(a)ovirt.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 10:48:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] Manage users without Red Hat Directory Server or IBM Tivoli
Directory Server?
>
> Dear Itamar,
>
> we (German Air Navigation Services) would like to use oVirt for
> testing our air traffic applications.
> In our air traffic application system, there is no directory service,
> since we don't need one. Consequently our test system has no
> directory service too.
> We differentiate only between root-users (manage the OS), air traffic
> application operational-users and air traffic application
> technical-users.
> For three kinds of users a directory service would mean too much
> overhead.
> oVirt is complex enough, therefore it would be advantegous to have a
> simple user-management without the need to install/configure/run a
> directory service infrastructure.
>
> Best regards
> Dennis
Hi Dennis,
From what you're describing - you have to populate oVirt somehow with 3 groups -
root-users, air trafdfic application operational-users and air traffic application
technical-users.
Not sure if you have technical developers at your organization, but at past we developed
an internal broker [1] which is not Ldap/Directory-Service based.
We have future thoughts about supporting not just directory services.
But for now - perhaps the quickest thing for you guys (if you have a technical team of
developers) is to write your own broker, similar to the internal broker).
I actually saw a non ldap broker that was implemented based on the way the internal
broker was implemented.
But I really think you should reconsider your decision NOT to use ldap directory-service
[1] - Internal broker - the piece of code responsible for the admin@interal user
Yair
I feel that we do need a plain and simple user management broker (could
be file based similar to jboss user/group properties). Dennis concerns
about the time/money to invest in an up & running
installation with few groups seems just.
we can make /etc/ovirt-engine/user-management/users.properties and
group.properties
users.properties:
#key could be considered as the DN
user1.name=Dennis
user1.id={UUID}
user1.groupids={admins group id},{others}
user1.pass=plaintext
group properties:
admins.id={UUID}
admins.desc=some description
> ________________________________________
> Von: Itamar Heim [iheim(a)redhat.com]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2012 00:44
> An: Dennis Böck
> Cc: users(a)oVirt.org
> Betreff: Re: [Users] Manage users without Red Hat Directory Server or
> IBM Tivoli Directory Server?
>
> On 12/03/2012 08:51 AM, Dennis Böck wrote:
>> Dear oVirt-Community,
>>
>> how can I add a new User? If I click “Add” under the “Users”-Tag of
>> the
>> web interface, I cannot create a new user. If I start a search,
>> only the
>> user “admin” is displayed.
>>
>> Is it maybe not possible to create users out of oVirt?
>>
>> Even users which I added locally (on the fedora host which runs the
>> ovirt engine) are not displayed.
>>
>> Can you only manage users if oVirt is connected to a Red Hat
>> Directory
>> Server or IBM Tivoli Directory Server?
>>
> can you please explain the use case where there is no existing
> directory
> to handle group membership and authentication?
>
> thanks,
> Itamar
> _______________________________________________
> Users mailing list
> Users(a)ovirt.org
> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>
_______________________________________________
Users mailing list
Users(a)ovirt.org
http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
4:52 a.m.
On 12/05/2012 11:50 AM, Roy Golan wrote:
On 12/05/2012 11:01 AM, Yair Zaslavsky wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Dennis Böck" <dennis(a)webdienstleistungen.com>
>> To: "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com>
>> Cc: "users(a)oVirt.org" <users(a)ovirt.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 10:48:58 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Users] Manage users without Red Hat Directory Server or
>> IBM Tivoli Directory Server?
>>
>> Dear Itamar,
>>
>> we (German Air Navigation Services) would like to use oVirt for
>> testing our air traffic applications.
>> In our air traffic application system, there is no directory service,
>> since we don't need one. Consequently our test system has no
>> directory service too.
>> We differentiate only between root-users (manage the OS), air traffic
>> application operational-users and air traffic application
>> technical-users.
>> For three kinds of users a directory service would mean too much
>> overhead.
>> oVirt is complex enough, therefore it would be advantegous to have a
>> simple user-management without the need to install/configure/run a
>> directory service infrastructure.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Dennis
> Hi Dennis,
> From what you're describing - you have to populate oVirt somehow with
> 3 groups -
> root-users, air trafdfic application operational-users and air traffic
> application technical-users.
>
> Not sure if you have technical developers at your organization, but at
> past we developed an internal broker [1] which is not
> Ldap/Directory-Service based.
> We have future thoughts about supporting not just directory services.
> But for now - perhaps the quickest thing for you guys (if you have a
> technical team of developers) is to write your own broker, similar to
> the internal broker).
> I actually saw a non ldap broker that was implemented based on the way
> the internal broker was implemented.
> But I really think you should reconsider your decision NOT to use ldap
> directory-service
>
>
> [1] - Internal broker - the piece of code responsible for the
> admin@interal user
>
>
> Yair
I feel that we do need a plain and simple user management broker (could
be file based similar to jboss user/group properties). Dennis concerns
about the time/money to invest in an up & running
installation with few groups seems just.
we can make /etc/ovirt-engine/user-management/users.properties and
group.properties
users.properties:
#key could be considered as the DN
user1.name=Dennis
user1.id={UUID}
user1.groupids={admins group id},{others}
user1.pass=plaintext
group properties:
admins.id={UUID}
admins.desc=some description
there are enough implementations for these things, we don't need to
invent our own.
>> ________________________________________
>> Von: Itamar Heim [iheim(a)redhat.com]
>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2012 00:44
>> An: Dennis Böck
>> Cc: users(a)oVirt.org
>> Betreff: Re: [Users] Manage users without Red Hat Directory Server or
>> IBM Tivoli Directory Server?
>>
>> On 12/03/2012 08:51 AM, Dennis Böck wrote:
>>> Dear oVirt-Community,
>>>
>>> how can I add a new User? If I click “Add” under the “Users”-Tag of
>>> the
>>> web interface, I cannot create a new user. If I start a search,
>>> only the
>>> user “admin” is displayed.
>>>
>>> Is it maybe not possible to create users out of oVirt?
>>>
>>> Even users which I added locally (on the fedora host which runs the
>>> ovirt engine) are not displayed.
>>>
>>> Can you only manage users if oVirt is connected to a Red Hat
>>> Directory
>>> Server or IBM Tivoli Directory Server?
>>>
>> can you please explain the use case where there is no existing
>> directory
>> to handle group membership and authentication?
>>
>> thanks,
>> Itamar
>> _______________________________________________
>> Users mailing list
>> Users(a)ovirt.org
>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>>
> _______________________________________________
> Users mailing list
> Users(a)ovirt.org
> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
_______________________________________________
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http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
3:35 p.m.
Supporting non-Kerberos LDAP with simple authentication and no DNS
integration would significantly decrease the work required for people
like Dennis. Instead of having to set up Kerberos and DNS and an LDAP
provider that integrates with both, he could just set up a very simple
LDAP server and use a physically secured network or SSL with
self-signed keys to protect his authentication traffic.
There are already LDAP servers that use simple backends, including an
OpenLDAP variant that uses /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow instead of a
db. If the requirement for Kerberos and DNS directory integration
were removed, and simple authentication worked, you would be able to
support pretty much anything out there in the linux/unix world.
That way oVirt wouldn't have to reinvent any wheels, and people like
Dennis would have significantly less costly and time-consuming
rebuilding of their networks to do before being able to implement
oVirt.
--Charlie
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:52 AM, Itamar Heim <iheim(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 12/05/2012 11:50 AM, Roy Golan wrote:
>
> On 12/05/2012 11:01 AM, Yair Zaslavsky wrote:
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>
>>> From: "Dennis Böck" <dennis(a)webdienstleistungen.com>
>>> To: "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com>
>>> Cc: "users(a)oVirt.org" <users(a)ovirt.org>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 10:48:58 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [Users] Manage users without Red Hat Directory Server or
>>> IBM Tivoli Directory Server?
>>>
>>> Dear Itamar,
>>>
>>> we (German Air Navigation Services) would like to use oVirt for
>>> testing our air traffic applications.
>>> In our air traffic application system, there is no directory service,
>>> since we don't need one. Consequently our test system has no
>>> directory service too.
>>> We differentiate only between root-users (manage the OS), air traffic
>>> application operational-users and air traffic application
>>> technical-users.
>>> For three kinds of users a directory service would mean too much
>>> overhead.
>>> oVirt is complex enough, therefore it would be advantegous to have a
>>> simple user-management without the need to install/configure/run a
>>> directory service infrastructure.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Dennis
>>
>> Hi Dennis,
>> From what you're describing - you have to populate oVirt somehow with
>> 3 groups -
>> root-users, air trafdfic application operational-users and air traffic
>> application technical-users.
>>
>> Not sure if you have technical developers at your organization, but at
>> past we developed an internal broker [1] which is not
>> Ldap/Directory-Service based.
>> We have future thoughts about supporting not just directory services.
>> But for now - perhaps the quickest thing for you guys (if you have a
>> technical team of developers) is to write your own broker, similar to
>> the internal broker).
>> I actually saw a non ldap broker that was implemented based on the way
>> the internal broker was implemented.
>> But I really think you should reconsider your decision NOT to use ldap
>> directory-service
>>
>>
>> [1] - Internal broker - the piece of code responsible for the
>> admin@interal user
>>
>>
>> Yair
>
> I feel that we do need a plain and simple user management broker (could
> be file based similar to jboss user/group properties). Dennis concerns
> about the time/money to invest in an up & running
> installation with few groups seems just.
>
> we can make /etc/ovirt-engine/user-management/users.properties and
> group.properties
>
> users.properties:
>
> #key could be considered as the DN
>
> user1.name=Dennis
> user1.id={UUID}
> user1.groupids={admins group id},{others}
> user1.pass=plaintext
>
> group properties:
>
> admins.id={UUID}
> admins.desc=some description
there are enough implementations for these things, we don't need to invent
our own.
>
>
>>> ________________________________________
>>> Von: Itamar Heim [iheim(a)redhat.com]
>>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2012 00:44
>>> An: Dennis Böck
>>> Cc: users(a)oVirt.org
>>> Betreff: Re: [Users] Manage users without Red Hat Directory Server or
>>> IBM Tivoli Directory Server?
>>>
>>> On 12/03/2012 08:51 AM, Dennis Böck wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear oVirt-Community,
>>>>
>>>> how can I add a new User? If I click “Add” under the “Users”-Tag of
>>>> the
>>>> web interface, I cannot create a new user. If I start a search,
>>>> only the
>>>> user “admin” is displayed.
>>>>
>>>> Is it maybe not possible to create users out of oVirt?
>>>>
>>>> Even users which I added locally (on the fedora host which runs the
>>>> ovirt engine) are not displayed.
>>>>
>>>> Can you only manage users if oVirt is connected to a Red Hat
>>>> Directory
>>>> Server or IBM Tivoli Directory Server?
>>>>
>>> can you please explain the use case where there is no existing
>>> directory
>>> to handle group membership and authentication?
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> Itamar
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9:56 a.m.
On 12/06/2012 10:35 PM, Charlie wrote:
Supporting non-Kerberos LDAP with simple authentication and no DNS
integration would significantly decrease the work required for people
like Dennis. Instead of having to set up Kerberos and DNS and an LDAP
provider that integrates with both, he could just set up a very simple
LDAP server and use a physically secured network or SSL with
self-signed keys to protect his authentication traffic.
There are already LDAP servers that use simple backends, including an
OpenLDAP variant that uses /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow instead of a
db. If the requirement for Kerberos and DNS directory integration
were removed, and simple authentication worked, you would be able to
support pretty much anything out there in the linux/unix world.
That way oVirt wouldn't have to reinvent any wheels, and people like
Dennis would have significantly less costly and time-consuming
rebuilding of their networks to do before being able to implement
oVirt.
I agree. hopefully we'll get to fix this soon.
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