The console enables you to import users and groups, create user roles, and assign users to roles. In this exercise, you create a user role, and give the role view permissions on the node group you previously created. Then you create a local user, and assign a user role to that user.
You can connect Puppet Enterprise (PE) with an external directory, such as Active Directory or OpenLDAP, and import users and groups, rather than creating and maintaining users and groups in multiple locations. You can create user roles, and assign imported users to those roles. Roles are granted permissions, such as permission to act on node groups. When you assign roles to users or user groups, you are granting users permissions in a more organized way.
This exercise doesn't cover connecting with an OpenLDAP or Active Directory.
Step 1: Create a user role
Add a user role so you can manage permissions for groups of users at one time.
Ensure you have installed PE, at least one Windows agent node, the puppetlabs-wsus_client module, and that you've classified a node.
You must have admin permissions to complete these steps, which include assigning a user to a role.
- In the console, click User Roles.
- For Name, type Windows users, and then for Description, type a description for the role, such as Windows users.
- Click Add role.
Step 2: Create a user and add the user to your role
These steps demonstrate how to create a new local user.
Step 3: Enable a user to log in
When you create new local users, you need to send them a password reset token so that they can log in for the first time.
- On the Users page, click the new local user. The new user's page opens.
- On the upper-right of the page, click Generate password reset. A Password reset link message box opens.
- Copy the link provided in the message and send it to the new user. Then you can close the message.
Step 4: Give your role access to the node group you created
You must give the role access to the group, so that the Windows users role can view the windows_example node group.
- From the Windows users role page, click the Permissions tab.
- In the Type box, select Node groups.
- In the Permission box, select View.
- In the Object box, select
windows_example. - Click Add permission, and then click the commit button.