Administrator (not root) user cannot update

[p-user]

In order not to have to use the root account that much, I created an admin user (conveniently called admin) and gave it all the permissions.
It logs in using the Proxmox VE authorization server. For normal usage it works absolutely fine.
Assuming that you can do the same as root I noticed the following:
- I can do a refresh as this admin user.
- I can not do an update, it's greyed out.
- Going into the shell of a pve host I have to re-login as root, this is no problem, but noticed on the Proxmox Backup Server I get an error when I want to go into the shell as this admin user.

Is this an oversight, or intentional?

Kind regards,
Albert

 

[LnxBil]

Is this an oversight, or intentional?

Neither or a bit of both. Updates can only be done by root in this setup, because the os internal update mechanism is used, which can only be run by root. Everything else you see in the GUI is done by PVE itself, so they can control whatever they want users to do.

 

[p-user]

Thanks, I understand!

I was just confused why it suddenly didn't work, until I realized that I was using my admin account instead of root.
Maybe a pop up to warn that you're not root could help?
Anyway, no problem

Thanks for clarifying this up.

Regards,
Albert

 

[LnxBil]

Maybe a pop up to warn that you're not root could help?

AFAIK, Proxmox is working on removing this (and other limitations just to the root@pam) in the API, so that there is a more consistent user experience.