Get Session Username about lxdui HOT 6 CLOSED

Hi @otaviomarco,

I'm not sure what you mean by schema. Are you referring to the YAML representation that LXD creates for a container so that you can update the container metadata -- e.g. lxc config metadata edit <container_name>?

If you need to grab the authenticated user in the browser you can use the JavaScript function: sessionStorage.getItem("user")

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Hi @vhajdari. Thanks for reply.

I actually need, when creating a container, to write the user who created it. With this i can restrict user access.

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@otaviomarco,

What's not clear is, write username to where? How would you do this if you were to create a container, say with lxc launch ubuntu:16.04 myContainer?

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@vhajdari ,

For example: I have 2 users: "user_1" and "user_2".
"user_1" created the containers "con_1", "con_3".
"user_2" created the containers "con_4", "con_5".

When user_1 authenticate i want to list only their containers, con_1 and con_3.

But, first i need to save session username in container metadata.

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OK I see. You are asking about role based access controls (RBAC). So, the simple answer is you can't do it today, but we plan on introducing RBAC in the 2.4 or 2.5 timeframe.

We tried to make LXDUI as simple as possible, an extension of LXD, by providing a visual interface on top of LXD using LXD's API. Since LXD does not provide an API for RBAC we have no way of exposing that in LXDUI. In the future we'll expand on the platform to include state persistence (a.k.a database) so that authentication and authorization can be applied to entities within the application. If LXD exposes such an API we'd most likely use that instead.

With that said, I'd recommend dropping a line to the fine folks at https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/ to see if they may have an alternative for you.

Hope that helps!

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No problem. Thanks for your time. ;)

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