topic Re: New restricted user cannot login to vCenter in VMware vCenter™ Discussions

New restricted user cannot login to vCenter

ReazBaksh — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 15:42:44 GMT

Hello

I'm using vCenter version 7.0.3, 20842708 and I am trying to create a restricted access group. I created a Role and then created a group with that role attached. When I add a user to the group it gives me the following:

Unable to login because you do not have permission on any vCenter Server systems connected to this client.

Now I saw the following KB link https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1003872 which says to login one has to be part of the Administrators Group. Does that not defeat the purpose of creating a group with restricted access? Is there a way to fix this with out giving the administrators access?

Re: New restricted user cannot login to vCenter

ReazBaksh — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 20:13:26 GMT

So if I added to the new restricted group, the DCADMIN group, it works as I need.

Re: New restricted user cannot login to vCenter

lamw — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 01:05:53 GMT

Not sure if you've figured it out but if you intend to restrict access, then you need to assign it some role within the vSphere Inventory ... or else these users will NOT have any permissions and by default, the vSphere UI will not allow logins that have no permissions (this is default behavior)