[ovirt-users] admin at internal login failure

[Douglas Schilling Landgraf]

On 07/11/2014 02:04 PM, Darcy Hodgson wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
>
> I am no longer able to log in with the internal admin account. I'm not
> sure if this is related to me doing updates, or re-attaching the
> engine to my ipa server.
>
> For both webpage login and the ovirt shell I get the following
> messaged in the enging.log file.
>
> 2014-07-11 11:01:16,685 WARN
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.LoginUserCommand] (ajp--127.0.0.1-8702-8)
> CanDoAction of action LoginUser failed.
> Reasons:USER_NOT_AUTHORIZED_TO_PERFORM_ACTION
> 2014-07-11 11:01:16,687 INFO
> [org.ovirt.engine.api.restapi.security.auth.LoginValidator]
> (ajp--127.0.0.1-8702-8) Login failure, user: admin domain: internal
> reason: [USER_NOT_AUTHORIZED_TO_PERFORM_ACTION]
>
> I tried to do a engine-cleanup/engine-setup but that didn't help. I
> don't want to lose all the data as this environment has been running
> for a while now.
>
> I then tried to remove the ipa domain and log in with the internal
> admin user without success. Followed by re-adding my domain and adding
> permissions to my ipa admin user which also did not work.
>
> If anyone knows how to correct this that would be very helpful.
>

Hi Darcy,

I guess attaching upgrade and engine logs might help people to identify 
what happened. Anyway, have you tried:

engine-config -s AdminPassword=interactive
service ovirt-engine restart

From:
http://www.ovirt.org/Engine_config_examples#Changing_admin_user_password


-- 
Cheers
Douglas