[Users] I can't figure out how to add a user?
First off, oVirt noob alert. That said, I have been able to figure out and over come most of my issues getting oVirt running on CentOS 6.3 the various documentation that is available, including this list's archives for the last few months. (Side question: I haven't found a good way to search the archives short of using site: within google search, but that does not seem to work so well, so I have been relying on gmail's collection of the messages since I subscribed a few months ago. Is there a better way?) Anyway, this one seems like it should be so simple that I feel like I must be missing some thing painfully obvious. That is, I don't seem to be able to create a user. The GUI's add button on the user tab just lets me search existing users, but does not provide anywhere to enter new user info. I have successfully "added" the admin@internal user several times while bumbling around with that interface, but this is not terribly helpful since it has always been there. To what I have added it, I am am not entirely clear. I don't see anything in the getting started guide, and the administrator guide just walks me through the same useless steps I mentioned above in the user tab. Any nudge in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. I'll even accept dope slaps at this point if warranted. =) Thanks in advance for your time and consideration. _______________ Alan Johnson alan@datdec.com
Hey Alan; I think the missing piece might be a directory server of some kind (Active Directory, IPA, RHDS, and I think TivoliDS are the ones that work). You have to link oVirt engine up with your directory server, and add users to the directory server first before you can search and add them in oVirt. You link your oVirt engine to a directory server with the engine-manage-domains tool from the command line on your engine server. The command you'll use is something like: engine-manage-domains -action=add -domain=example.com -user=admin -provider=IPA -interactive That adds a domain called example.com, using user admin with ldap server type IPA and prompts you for a password. Hope that helps. Tim Hildred, RHCE Content Author II - Engineering Content Services, Red Hat, Inc. Brisbane, Australia Email: thildred@redhat.com Internal: 8588287 Mobile: +61 4 666 25242 IRC: thildred ----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Johnson" <alan@datdec.com> To: "users" <users@ovirt.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 7:36:40 AM Subject: [Users] I can't figure out how to add a user?
First off, oVirt noob alert. That said, I have been able to figure out and over come most of my issues getting oVirt running on CentOS 6.3 the various documentation that is available, including this list's archives for the last few months. (Side question: I haven't found a good way to search the archives short of using site: within google search, but that does not seem to work so well, so I have been relying on gmail's collection of the messages since I subscribed a few months ago. Is there a better way?)
Anyway, this one seems like it should be so simple that I feel like I must be missing some thing painfully obvious. That is, I don't seem to be able to create a user. The GUI's add button on the user tab just lets me search existing users, but does not provide anywhere to enter new user info. I have successfully "added" the admin@internal user several times while bumbling around with that interface, but this is not terribly helpful since it has always been there. To what I have added it, I am am not entirely clear. I don't see anything in the getting started guide, and the administrator guide just walks me through the same useless steps I mentioned above in the user tab.
Any nudge in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. I'll even accept dope slaps at this point if warranted. =)
Thanks in advance for your time and consideration.
_______________ Alan Johnson alan@datdec.com
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Tim Hildred <thildred@redhat.com> wrote:
Hey Alan;
I think the missing piece might be a directory server of some kind (Active Directory, IPA, RHDS, and I think TivoliDS are the ones that work). You have to link oVirt engine up with your directory server, and add users to the directory server first before you can search and add them in oVirt.
Yep, that's what I'm missing. Thanks!
You link your oVirt engine to a directory server with the engine-manage-domains tool from the command line on your engine server.
Is there a GUI in the works for this? Not a big deal if not, and now that I know what to look for, it is clearly covered in the Administration Guide. It would be good to mention the directory service in 12.1.8.1. Adding Users. I searched for add user and was apparently too burnt out to step back far enough to see the answer way off in another part of that chapter. Could some one point me to the appropriate place to put in that suggestion?
The command you'll use is something like:
engine-manage-domains -action=add -domain=example.com -user=admin -provider=IPA -interactive
That adds a domain called example.com, using user admin with ldap server type IPA and prompts you for a password.
Hope that helps.
That's a huge help! Thanks! Our global IT has been talking about setting up a single sign-on system, but not much progress has been made yet. Any thoughts on which of these options would be easiest to setup in the short term? Even better, what would be the best/easiest way to authenticate off of Google Apps? I'll do some searching on that, but if some one knows that they support one of the protocols directly, or some way to wrap GA with one of the supported protocols, that would be greatly appreciated. We have an LDAP server that syncs to Google Apps, but it does not store password data.
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