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

[Dennis Böck]

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
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Von: Itamar Heim [iheim at redhat.com]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2012 00:44
An: Dennis Böck
Cc: users at 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