user management

Dear All, Please can anyone advise if the following is achievable. We would like to have a single realm connecting to our AD environment, that will import groups from a specific OU, and by association the users in those groups. The aim being that we do not have to specifically filter users and...

Hi all, I'm working on a Proxmox setup involving delegated backup responsibilities across different users/teams and have encountered a few limitations around permissions and access control. I’d appreciate any insights on the following: 1. Backup Job Restrictions: I want users to be able to set...

I would like to raise the topic of the proposal-discussion of user privileges for VM, in connection with the active phase of development of pve version 8 and the upcoming 9 1. VM.Config.Network: now, this privilege allows changing settings/adding new network devices, as well as configuring...

Hi, I was wondering if there was a way to allocate a raw USB port as a USB mapping. I use Proxmox to create an isolated development environment for embedded projects. I know that I could just allocate a raw USB slot to a VM, but this requires logging in as the root user. I want to give other...

I was curious to know if Proxmox had a built-in method of doing password expiry for user accounts that are not `root`? I was hoping to make it so the password would expire every 90 days, similar to the `chage` command. I am pretty sure if you use PAM authentication instead of PVE Authentication...

Hello, I have a lot of users as drawn, the user has expired and I want to delete it, but the number is too much I can't delete one by one. Can you delete all these expired users with other alternatives?

Hello, I have been going deep into proxmox’s custom user management (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/User_Management), along with an openID connect realms. And I have a few questions: 1. Proxmox’s wiki on user management says “Proxmox VE stores user attributes in /etc/pve/domains.cfg”, this file...

I'm trying to use pools and roles to allow limited user self-service, but I'm stuck on allowing them to create their own VMs. The sticking point appears, I think(???) to be that I'm using OpenvSwitch. Openvswitch works great for my needs, but I don't see any permissions for it in the PVE...

Hello, I'm not sure if this has already been asked here, but I couldn't find anything about it. We are trying to give a user of our Proxmox cluster the rights to edit the backup plans, which according to the documentation requires Sys.Modify. In the meantime we have also managed to restrict the...

I migrate from a Proxmox 6 cluster to Proxmox 8 cluster. How can migrate all vm users ? I have tried coping the /etc/pve/user.cfg i see all users but passwords doasn't works .. Thanks!

Hi, I’m currently learning more about Proxmox user management. I have a few statements/questions and would appreciate your confirmation. Proxmox does not use sudo by default, but with apt-get install sudo it is possible to use it. root - there is no way to add another linux user and give the...

I just read through the documentation for user management and I'm missing a fundamental understanding of some aspect of it. I want to create an admin user instead of doing everything as root. I created a user 'brian' and added them to the Adminstrators group. However, I cannot log in as that...

When i try to delete one user i hav this error: delete user failed: cannot update tfa config, following nodes are not up to date: cluster node 'cvs25' is too old, did not broadcast its version info (500) But "cvs25" is updated to the last proxmox7 version. pveversion -v proxmox-ve: 7.4-1...

I have a 3-node cluster and yesterday I performed an upgrade in all nodes from PVE 7.4 to PVE 8.0.4. The upgrade went well and all guests are running without issues. I use WHMCS with the Proxmox VPS for WHMCS module to sell virtualization products in my website. Today I tried to destroy a...

Hello, I am a user of version 7.4.4 and I am populating the users in my cluster, and I would like to know how do I know which users are online?

Hi, i tried to use a user filter at ldap configuration. https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/user-management.html#ldap / https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/configuration-files.html#domains-cfg states this would be a normal ldap search filter. when I am searching for Users with attribute accessTo=pbs-host...

Hello everyone! my question is about the permissions within a proxmox cluster. We have 8 nodes in our cluster and want to make some of them available for other users via the resource pools. So I created users, added these users to a group and allowed this group to access the pool. Within the...

Hi guys, yesterday I installed my first Proxmox VE on my tiny pc. I want to add a new user with administrative privileges. (I'm following this YT tutorial : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtuhWjEo9qs) So far, this is what I've done: create user marco on the OS create user marco on Proxmox...

Hello, I've added accidentally an PAM-user over the GUI, realized after I created the user, that I've should have selected the PVE Realm. Here is my Problem: I cannot delete the (freshly) created PAM-user. When using the Remove-Button in the GUI: delete user failed: user '***@pam' not found...

Hi, Could anyone advise how to give domain-level access to a user in PMG, I couldn't find any documentation on this Thank you.