On 10/02/2012 06:28 AM, Brian Vetter wrote:
I've done two different things. First, I associated one of my groups in my 
directory with being a VMUser which gave members access to a particular VM. If 
I login with one of those users via the User portal, I can see their VM (or VMs 
if I do more than one). If I use the REST API (or ovirt-shell) using this 
user's account and password, I get an unauthorized error.

Similarly, I have another group that is assigned the DomainManager role. If I 
add this other user to that group, when I login with that user via the user 
portal, I see the advanced portal. If I use the REST-API (using curl) or 
ovirt-shell and use the user's login information, I now am authorized and see a 
list of VMs returned as XML (in the case of curl).

That said, I see all VMs in the system, not just the one assigned to the user 
that logged in. So this makes me think that either the REST API for getting the 
APIs as suggested by the article is an administrative API and there is either 
(a) a different rest API/uri that returns the logged in user's vms (the list 
that would be returned to the portal) or (b) no way to get a particular user's 
list of VMs authenticated as the user.

you need to specify to the api you want to view things in "user mode" via the filter header.
Example:
curl -X GET -H "Filter: true" -u user@domain:password http://[servername]:PORT/api/vms




Brian

On Oct 1, 2012, at 10:49 PM, Yair Zaslavsky wrote:

Hi Brian,
I looked at the wiki -
I assume you're referring to the "showVm" part.
Have you assigned any permissions to the user that is supposed to view the VMs?
I assume you created the VMs with the administrator user, so any other user 
will require to have a proper permissions in order to view these VMs

Yair


On 10/02/2012 05:09 AM, Brian Vetter wrote:
I was trying to use both the rest api to view a user's vm information. I found 
that the REST APIs always returned an authentication error if the account I had 
logged into was not an ovirt administrator. I am guessing that either (a) I am 
using the wrong URL in the REST api or (b) you must be some kind of admin to 
access the REST APIs. I noticed the same behavior when I was using the 
ovirt-shell tool.

For example, I was trying to follow the instructions in 
http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/How_to_Connect_to_SPICE_Console_Without_Portal to 
get the list of VMs (presumably for the user that is logging in), I get an 
unauthorized error. If the user account I login with in the curl or ovirt-shell 
connect statement is an admin, I get the list of VMs.

So my question here is does the REST-API need admin privileges or am I using a url that 
requires admin privileges whereas some others don't. And if it is the latter, is there 
somewhere that documents the various rest api resources? For example, to go back to the 
"How to connect to Spice console ..." article, how would one use the REST API 
to fetch one's virtual machines, their status, and connection info for them?

Thanks,

Brian

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