Aria Automation get username

[websylv]

Hello,

I'm a new user of VMware Automation (8.18). I have spent hours searching for how to get the username of the user requesting a deployment during the request.

I would like to get the username to auto-fill an input with the SSH key of the user. I managed to get the SSH key, but I can't figure out how to pass the username to the action in the form or how to get the username in the Action.

Here is what I'm trying to do:

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formatVersion: 1
inputs:
  sshKey:
    type: string
    title: Clé SSH
    $dynamicDefault: /data/vro-actions/com.xxxx/getSSHKeyPS?usernameInput=XXXXXXX
    readOnly: false
    minLength: 32
    maxLength: 9999

Any ideas on how I can achieve this?

[WhiteForEver]

Hey,

did you try to use Subscription and fetch the username?

Take a look here: https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/383399/need-to-get-properties-or-other-ids-and.html

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[dwilde]

So the following will provide the username of the requestor...

resources:
    requser: ${env.requestedBy}

Is that what you are looking for?

[MohammadHadi Milani]

Create an action that accepts no inputs and returns the current user's SSH key based on the requester's username

Write it as javascript

var username = System.getContext().getParameter("__metadata_userName");

var sshKey = getSSHKeyForUser(username); // You must implement this

 

return sshKey;

Update your template yaml to use this action as default.

formatVersion: 1
inputs:
  sshKey:
    type: string
    title: Clé SSH
    $dynamicDefault: /data/vro-actions/com.xxxx/getSSHKeyForCurrentUser
    readOnly: false
    minLength: 32
    maxLength: 9999

I havent tested it yet, but its a really interesting topic. I'll try it out soon to improve my understanding too