[ovirt-users] Allow non-privileged users to use the API

[nicolas at devels.es]

El 2016-06-08 13:43, Alexander Wels escribió:
> On Wednesday, June 08, 2016 01:27:48 PM nicolas at devels.es wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm currently trying to use oVirt's API with a non-privileged username
>> (only has UserRole over a few VMs) and when the request is made, a 400
>> error is returned:
>> 
>> <fault>
>>    <reason>Operation Failed</reason>
>>    <detail>
>>      query execution failed due to insufficient permissions.
>>    </detail>
>> </fault>
>> 
>> Is there a way to grant non-privileged users the ability to use API 
>> (for
>> example, to list VMs where they have privileges)? What's the minimal
>> permission a username needs to be granted to use the API?
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> Nicolás
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> 
> I don't know which SDK you are using or if you are doing direct http 
> requests
> with your own framework, but in order for non privileged users to use 
> the REST
> api you need to pass the 'filter: true' header with the request. This 
> will tell
> the REST api to filter the results based on the users permissions.

Thanks, that worked.

Regards.