Dear Sir/Madam, The ability to upload ISOs through the web interface and boot VMs from them is a welcome addition in oVirt release 4.2.2. I am grateful to the people behind the implementation of this.
Consider a scenario in which you wish to allow *end-users* to upload ISOs to one or more Data Domains. The users can then use the uploaded ISOs to boot their VMs. Is it possible to grant a user permission to upload ISOs through the web interface? I tried to to this under oVirt release 4.2.2 by doing the following: - adding the 'SuperUser' role to a target user for a specific Data Domain, which enables the user to log onto the Administration Portal. - adding the 'DiskCreator' role to the same target user for the same Data Domain, which, I would hope, would allow the user to both create disks and upload ISOs within that Data Domain. Disk creation in the Data Domain for the target user works as expected; ISO upload does not. A dialog appears with the message: 'Operation Canceled Error while executing action: User is not authorized to perform this action.' Here is the message that appears in /var/log/ovirt-engine/engine.log when an attempt at uploading an ISO is made by the target user: INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.storage.disk.image.TransferImageStatusCommand] (default task-40) [5b3fef06-49c8-4c34-81a3-a20fa691709a] No permission found for user 'a9fde4c3-97a3-4494-84f8-08041a16710c' or one of the groups he is member of, when running action 'TransferImageStatus', Required permissions are: Action type: 'USER' Action group: 'CREATE_DISK' Object type: 'System' Object ID: 'aaa00000-0000-0000-0000-123456789aaa'. If one assigns the DiskCreator role System permission for the target user then that user can upload ISOs without problem. Unfortunately, the user can upload ISOs - and create disks - in *all* data domains. To re-iterate, is it possible to grant an end-user permission to upload ISOs to specific data domains through the web interface without granting an all-encompassing System permission? Best wishes, Lloyd Kamara References: [The first two are included insofar as they concern ISO upload via web] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1530730 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1536826 [This one is included because I wonder if the testing requests includes the ability for users to upload ISOs via the web GUI, not just attach existing ISOs in data domains to VMs] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058798 _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
