[Engine-devel] Adding users and assigning roles in Ovirt

[Oved Ourfalli]

Your E-mail made me look a bit and check the different flows.

I think the only use-case for adding users without giving any permissions is when you add a user for notification reasons.
You can add a user, and then in the Event Notifier sub-tab define what events he will get via E-mail.
afaik (and I'm not an event notifier expert), this user doesn't have to be able to login, or to have permissions of any kind. He just gets events.

Other than that you're right. A user which is added to the system can't do much without assigning him roles.
I think adding roles assignment to this dialog may be a bit cumbersome. Perhaps some wizard is required in that case. Or at least some checkbox saying "allow user to login". That way the new user will be able to login, and he will have some default permissions as well (permissions granted to Everyone).

Let's see what others think.

Regards,
Oved


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ramesh" <rnachimu at redhat.com>
> To: engine-devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Monday, December 2, 2013 7:22:53 AM
> Subject: [Engine-devel] Adding users and assigning roles in Ovirt
> 
> Hi All,
> 
>    We have 'Add' action under 'Users' main tab to add users in Ovirt .
> It looks slightly different from the "Add user" option of the Configure
> option. Actually, this one is missing the "Role to Assign" option. I
> think without assigning any role, adding a user is not meaningful and it
> didn't complete the flow.
> 
>    Currently to assign any role to the user, either we have to use
> 'Configure' option ( to add system permission) or we have to go to the
> specific entity and add permission for that entity. It will be nice if
> we can assign roles( system level permissions) while adding users in
> 'Users' tab itself. It will be a clear user flow where one can add user
> and assign role in the same place.
> 
> I have attached both the screen shots.
> 
> please share your thoughts.
> 
> Regards,
> Ramesh
> 
> 
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