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  • 1.  vSphere missing Read-Only permissions

    Posted Apr 27, 2021 02:06 PM

    I'm trying to set up some read-only users in vSphere. When I go to look at the privileges that role has, it doesn't show anything. If I assign the role to a user anyway, when I log in it says "Unable to login because you do not have permission on any vCenter Server systems connected to this client."

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    If I try to create a replacement Read-only role, when I go into add privileges, I don't see any that are view only, only those that allow modifications.

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    Am I doing something wrong or did I lose all the read only permissions?

    Thanks



  • 2.  RE: vSphere missing Read-Only permissions

    Posted Apr 27, 2021 04:10 PM

    You won't see any assigned privileges for that role:

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    How and where are you assigning the permissions and the role to the user/group?



  • 3.  RE: vSphere missing Read-Only permissions

    Posted Apr 30, 2021 06:34 PM

    So it doesn't show and you can't apply read permissions. Not that I need to, but it wouldn't be possible to only give someone view rights for, say, host data, but not the network config?

    I had been trying in Global Permissions in Administration. Going to VMs and Templates and applying the permissions to the datacenter ended up working.

    Thanks