Hello everyone. So I am having some difficulty understanding how to create/manage users in proxmox using Linux PAM standard authentication. The documentation reads as follows:
There appears to be conflicting information based on my reading of the above quote. The user creation menu is only accessible at the datacenter level, which would indicate that the settings would apply to all nodes in the cluster, which supports the "Linux PAM is a framework for system-wide user authentication" portion of the documentation. However, someone has to manually access each node in the cluster and manually create and configure a user with the same username before it will work? How is that supposed to work? The proxmox user menu allows you to set the password for a user, so will doing so in the proxmox admin portal update that user's password on all of the nodes? Furthermore, how do you go about assigning permissions to the newly created user? When I click the "permissions" button in the proxmox user menu, there are no permissions assigned to the user, and I can't seem to find way to do so within the proxmox admin portal. Can someone help me understand just how this works. I like to think I am not an idiot, and yet I am unable to figure out how to go about performing what should be the simple task of creating a new user and assigning them permissions, which would seem to indicate that this process is overly-complicated. Can someone explain this to me. Like I am 5.
