[pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup 00/16] API tokens

[Fabian Grünbichler]

On October 30, 2020 9:48 am, Thomas Lamprecht wrote:
> On 30.10.20 09:03, Fabian Grünbichler wrote:
>> On October 29, 2020 8:50 pm, Thomas Lamprecht wrote:
>>> Also, I just may not remember if we discussed this, but why is there no
>>> "inherit the user permission" mode like PVE has?
>> 
>> because with the ACL changes (allowing a user to define arbitrary ACLs 
>> for their tokens) it's not really needed. I can just give Admin on '/' 
>> with propagation for the same effect.
> 
> hmm, true, but then I'd hint to the user that a newly created token has
> no permissions.

might be a good addition to the 'Copy secret value' dialogue?

> 
>> and also because I think it's 
>> better to make users think about which permissions to give a certain 
>> token (e.g., most tokens will probably just have Datastore.Backup on one 
>> datastore, which is something I'd like to put somewhere on the Datastore 
>> GUI as a two-step 'Create client token' thing) then nudging them into 
>> 'just tick this and everything works (but is not much better than just 
>> storing your username + password everywhere)'.
>> 
> 
> btw. can we enter a token in Proxmox VE storage add already?

yes, it should be usable everywhere by using tokenid + secret instead 
of userid + password (including remotes, PVE, proxmox-backup-client 
command-line), except for proxmox-backup-qemu for which I just sent a 
patch (Userid -> Authid).