Re: [Users] Manage users without Red Hat Directory Server or IBM Tivoli Directory Server?

----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dennis Böck" <dennis(a)webdienstleistungen.com&gt; > To: "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com&gt; > Cc: &quot;users(a)oVirt.org&quot; <users(a)ovirt.org&gt; > 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 > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users