[Users] I can't figure out how to add a user?

[Tim Hildred]

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
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alan Johnson" <alan at datdec.com>
> To: "users" <users at 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 at 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.
> 
> 
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> alan at datdec.com
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