2014-04-14 15:18 GMT+08:00 Tomas Jelinek <tjelinek@redhat.com>:

----- Original Message -----
> From: "plysan" <plysab@gmail.com>
> To: users@ovirt.org
> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 3:52:55 AM
> Subject: [ovirt-users] Question about power user and public template
>
> Hi,
>
> Currently I have run into a problem about permissions when creating vm from
> template.
>
> Say if non admin user A in power user portal want to create vm from template
> C created by non admin user B, I found out that A need to have both power
> user role and userbasedtemplatevm role to make it work. If i only assign
> userbasedtemplatevm to C, A can only view the template in power user portal
> but not able to create vm from it.

I'd say the problem is that the template has some disks and as a "UserTemplateBasedVm" only you are
not allowed to "Access Image Storage Domains"?

Thanks for pointing that out, I really didn't think the disk has permissions too :)

Because PowerUserRole has more permissions than UserTemplateBasedVm, so I think assigning PowerUserRole is enough to see the template in power user portal. Based on this thought, I did the following two experiment:

1. I assigned PowerUserRole to user A in Configure -> System Permissions, but after that I still cannot see template C in power user portal.

The above role assignment result in user A having PowerUserRole inherited from System Permission, and based on [1], user A should have PowerUserRole on template C, right ?

2. Now based on 1 if I explicitly add PowerUserRole to user A on template C, I can see template C and create vms from it.

For my understanding, the above two role assignment should have the same result.

Any ideas?

[1]: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/engine-devel/2012-December/003229.html

For details about specific roles and what can be done by which role you can have a look at:
webadmin -> "Configure" in top right corner -> "Roles" side tab -> pick a specific role -> "Edit" button

>
> So is this the expected behavior? I don't quite understand what
> userbasedtemplatevm is used for. I noticed that making template C public
> have the effect of assign userbasedtemplatevm to everyone, but that seems
> not enough to let everyone use it.
>
> My engine version is 3.3.4.
>
> Any ideas? thanks for any help!

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