User management

As a group administrator you can create users, change their passwords and set and change their quotas for number VM’s running, CPU usage and memory usage.

For user management, you need to change to the groupadmin view. See the page on the user interface for more information on how to do this.

All user specific operations can be done from the System/Users section. One user operation is group specific: managing group administrators needs to be done from the System/Groups section.

Procedures explained below:

• New user
• Reset password
• User quota
• Make user group admin
• Delete user

New user

Purpose: create a new user login for your project in the HPC Cloud.

• make sure you use the groupadmin view
• go to the System/Users section
• click on the green + icon to start
  
• fill in username and (strong!) password
• click the green create button
• communicate the login and password to the user

On the ‘Users’ page, all users if your project are visible, including you yourself. You can select the user to edit it. There are three main options:

• Quotas button: Clicking on this icon allows you to change the user quotas
• Password button: Clicking on this will let you change the password
• One with a garbage bin on a red button. With this, you can delete the account.

Select user

As a group administrator you can change several settings connected to the user. In these cases you must first select the user.

• make sure you use the groupadmin view
• go to the System/Users section
• select the user by clicking on e.g. the name

Reset password

If a user has forgotten his login password you can assign a new one.

• select the user (see above)
• click the blue Password button in the top row
• fill in a (strong!) password, twice, and click Change
• communicate the new password to the user

User quota

The project has hard quota restriction on disk image storage. In addition, you can further restrict the use of resources per user.

• select the user (see above)
• click the Quota tab.
• check the current limits for this user: display is usage/max, - means not restricted (Example: 0/- means no usage, not restricted.)
• edit the quota with the blue Quota button, use Apply when done

Quota can be set on max simultaneous VMs, cores and more. No quota can be set on Core Hours consumed.

Make user group admin

You can give a user the same rights as you (as a group admin) have, this is done through the System/Groups section.

Note: The promotion to groupadmin is implemented in a few stages that may take few hours.
During that instable period the new groupadmin may experience some errors.
If you are in a hurry, email helpdesk@surfsara.nl that “the group admin rights for myproject-name need to be updated”.

• make sure you use the groupadmin view
• go to the System/Groups section
• select the group by clicking on e.g. the name
• select the Users tab: Users marked with a star are administrators
• use the Edit administrators button to update administrator rights
• click on a user to toggle administrator rights, use Apply when done
• remember: it may take a few hours to complete all changes, see above

Delete user

• make sure that no resources are owned by the user login
  • check Instances/VMs, Templates/VMs
  • check Storage/Images (need to switch to user view)
• select the user (see above)
• use the red trash can symbol to delete the user permanently