user management

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.

Hello! I'm trying to configure role for view-only guest accounts that need access to view VMs configuration and console, but should not be able to change anything nor input something to console. I've created role with VM.Audit, VM.Console and VM.Monitor privileges, which kind of does the trick...

Hello everyone, I am currently trying to implement LDAP Sync for our Proxmox cluster. Basically it's working fine, the only thing I don't get to sync are the user to group associations when a user is in a nested group. This is the relevant content of my domains.cfg: ad: example.local...