Define user access to the platform

Manage users with SSO or directory systems

You can use SAML, Active Directory, LDAP, and OpenID to manage users for Abiquo.

In this case, you will need to match Abiquo roles with roles in your SSO or directory systems.

For details of how to configure these systems, see Configure authentication and authorization.

Suspend or enable a user account

Manually reset a user password

Put a user on the notifications list

An enterprise manager user will receive notification emails from the cloud administrators about physical machines and their enterprise's VMs on the platform.

By default, a tenant administrator or cloud administrator user is an enterprise manager for the enterprise that they belong to.

To make a user an enterprise manager:

1. Assign the user a role with the Define enterprise manager privilege. See Manage roles. You can edit the user's existing role or assign a new role with this privilege.

Restrict user access to the platform by networks

By default, users can access the platform from any network address. To restrict access, when the administrator creates or edits a user, they can allow a set of network addresses.

To only allow access from a set of network addresses for a specific user via console and API:

1. Go to Users

2. Edit a user and go to Advanced

3. For the Allowed CIDRs, enter the network addresses that the user can access the platform from, using CIDR notation.

   • The user's Allowed CIDRs will have priority over the allowed CIDRs that are inherited from the user's role and/or scope

   • The inherited CIDRs will only display if the user has no Allowed CIDRs

   • Using the API, you can add a comma separated list of addresses in CIDR format

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     Create a user with restricted network access

To restrict access of more than one user at a time, set role and/or scope CIDRs.

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Create a scope with restricted network access

Disable access to users view

To prevent administrators from accessing Users view:

1. Go to Configuration view

2. Deselect the option to Show Users button on main toolbar

The platform will not display the button, and you cannot edit users until a cloud administrator changes this option.

Stop users from editing their account details

By default, users can edit their own account details by going to Main menu → User icon menu → Edit user.

To disable the Edit user option on the User icon menu for cloud users:

1. Go to Configuration → Security 

2. Deselect the option to Allow user to change their password. 

Configure access to enterprises

To display the Enterprises list on the left side of Users view, your user role must have the privilege to Manage users of all enterprises. The user can select an enterprise to edit its users. By default, only the Cloud administrator role has this privilege.

To switch directly to different enterprises your user role must have the Allow user to switch enterprise privilege. You can select the enterprise name and click the Switch enterprises button, as in Home view.

You can view and manage users of the enterprises in your user scope. And you can share resources with tenants in scopes beneath your scope.

A Tenant admin role might not have the privilege to Manage users of other enterprises. In this case, the user can only display and manage users of their own enterprise, or the enterprise they are logged into.