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How to Create and Delete OpenStack Users

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Stephanie Richards
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Learn how to manage OpenStack users in the OVHcloud Control Panel.

Access to Horizon and the OpenStack APIs is established via username/password pairs called "OpenStack users". You can create as many OpenStack users as needed and assign them various access permissions.

Requirements

NOTE: If the Public Cloud project concerned is the first project created in your customer account, OpenStack users will only be available after 7 days from the project's creation date.

You may request to remove this security measure by creating a support ticket in the OVHcloud Control Panel.

Instructions

Creating an OpenStack user

Log in to the OVHcloud Control Panel and open your Public Cloud project. Click on Users & Roles in the left-hand menu under Project Management.

Click on the button Create User.

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The user description is not the username for the OpenStack user but a descriptive term to help you organize users and their permissions. Enter a description and click on Next.

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Now you can select user roles representing the permissions the user shall have.

For each box checked, the user will gain access privileges according to the table below.

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Click on Confirm to create the OpenStack user. The username and password will be automatically generated and displayed in your Control Panel.

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Be sure to save the password shown in the green message box to a password manager at this time. The password cannot be recovered afterward. However, you can always create a new password by clicking on the more options ... button and selecting Generate a password.

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You can also edit the roles of a user at any time by clicking the more options ... button and selecting Edit roles. The Show role matrix button will display the access privileges of each role.

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With the OpenStack user created, you can use its credentials to log into the Horizon interface by clicking on the link Horizon in the left-hand menu.

 

Deleting an OpenStack user

You can remove an OpenStack user in the OVHcloud Control Panel. After clicking Public Cloud from the top navigation menu, click on Users & Roles in the left-hand menu under Project Management.

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Click on the more options ... button in the user's row and select Delete.

NOTE: Deleting a user is permanent and will invalidate all associated tokens, even those with an expiry date not yet exceeded.

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Go further

For more information and tutorials, please see our other guides on Instance Management, Public Cloud, or other OVHcloud products and services.

 

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