user management

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    Proxmox User Management Questions

    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...
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    openvswitch permissions missing?

    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...
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    User Management and permissions

    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...
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    How to backup and restore Proxmox Users ?

    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!
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    User management

    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...
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    Confused about user management

    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...
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    Error deleting user

    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...
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    [SOLVED] Error "delete user failed: No buffer space available (500)" when trying to delete PVE user

    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...
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    Online Users

    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?
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    PBS 2.4 + LDAP with User Filter: TASK ERROR: filter parse error

    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...
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    Proxmox and the Ressource-Pool Permissions.

    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...
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    [SOLVED] Add new administrator user

    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...
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    [SOLVED] Cannot delete PAM-User

    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...
  14. powersupport

    how to give domain level access to a user in proxmox mail gateway

    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.
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    Access to VM console without allowing input (view-only)

    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...
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    LDAP Sync with nested Groups

    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...
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    User access to see Data Center/Node Summary

    Hello, I created new audit user in Proxmox VE(5, 6). This user can`t see Summary in Datacenter and Node menu. How I can add access to see those Summary`s?
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    Permission set for specific hosts

    Hello, I am trying to achieve some permissions for 2 specific hosts in the cluster. We want to have some usergroup that can administer (create,delete,configure) vms on just 2 hosts. I am thinking of some combination of permissions on /node/<node> /storage and /vms . But as a result I am...
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    [SOLVED] Benutzerverwaltung --- Passwort setzten nicht möglich

    Habe einen Proxmox-Server aufgesetzt, welcher als Host für ein Testsystem dient. Auf das Testsystem sollen Mitarbeiter der Abteilung HLT zugreifen. Habe also eine Gruppe "HLT" angelegt und diesen entsprechende Rechte zugewiesen. Wenn ich jetzt einen Benutzer anlege (Linux PAM standard...
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    User accounts.

    If it try making an extra user account and assigning it to VM it comes up with permission check failed sys.audit 403?

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