[ovirt-users] Re: Is there a way to tell whether a permission set for a VM is inherited using REST API?

Hi Anton, You can assign permissions to the VM by using the following syntax: POST /ovirt-engine/api/vms/ yyy/permissions <permission> <role> <name> username</name> </role> <user id=" xxx"/> </permission> For further information, you can visit here: http://ovirt.github.io/ovirt-engine-api-model/master/#services/assigned_p... Hope it helps! *Regards,* *Shani Leviim* On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 1:04 PM Anton E <tentaclius(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Hi everyone! > > My question is in the subject for the most part. > I'm trying to backup a vm parameters, including the linked attributes, > namely the permissions. But I don't want the inherited permissions to be > included into the backup, I only need the attributes specific to the vm. It > looks like there is no difference between the inherited and the vm-specific > permissions in the output from /ovirt-engine/api/vms/<vm-id>/permissions > service. > > What is the best way to distinguish the specific permissions from the > inherited ones? It seems I can follow the link to the particular permission > and see whether the vm attribute is set on it and it points to the VM I > need, but that would require numerous REST requests to be done. Is there a > more elegant way? Maybe I can somehow filter the output of > /ovirt-engine/api/vms/<vm-id>/permissions to only include the required info? > > Thanks in advance. > > Best regards, > Anton. > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/AVHAC4SSJWV... >