madhav_VM wrote:
Hi,
How to link up the AD to the vCenter server in order to manage the access control?. How to create the users (maybe admins) directly on vCenter server instead of accessing from AD?.
thanks,
Madhav
If itsa vCenter Appliance follow the below steps for creating a Local user for vCenter.
Login to your applicance either via SSH or at the vSphere Client console with your administrative account. type the commands: useradd -m somename
Then to set a password for the new account type the following command and follow the prompts: passwd somename
Log out of your applicance and using your vSphere client log into vCenter with your administrative account and goto: "Home" then "Hosts and clusters". In the left most menu tree, right click where you want to grant the user access then select "Add Permission" from the pop-up menu. Should be pretty straight forward from here.
Be aware the user is added to the 'users, 'video' and 'dialout' group with your appliance OS (Suse?), If security is a concern you may wish to investigate hardening the account.