Hi Just sent an email with a patch for this. We are having some problems with our archiving service for the mailing list, so let me quickly summarize the options:
1.- Add a NAME variable in the user template as described by Hyunwoo, this will give you $USER[NAME] 2.- Apply the patch in [1]. This will give you access to $UNAME, $UID, $GNAME, $GID Cheers Ruben [1] http://dev.opennebula.org/issues/1428 On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Hyun Woo Kim <hyun...@fnal.gov> wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday I learned from ON developer Ruben that > for instance oneadmin can do > oneuser update ID(of the user who actually instantiates the VM template) > which will open an editor where oneadmin can type in > NAME="the username you want". > This will enable $USER[NAME] to return "the username you want" in the > CONTEXT. > > Hope this helps. > Hyunwoo > > > On Aug 27, 2012, at 6:42 PM, Jon Burger wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I would like to know if there is a context variable that contains the > username of the person creating the VM. We have OpenNebula authenticating > against active directory and wish to pass the username into the VM to > create the user id locally (in the case of Linux use kerberose). > > > > I understand I can get UserID eg $UID, and that by using $USER[TEMPLATE] > can receive a 64bit encoded XML string that contains the username, but I'd > rather not parse XML if I can help it as that feels a little dirty to me. > > > > We have tried the obvious $USER[NAME] - which always returns null. > > > > It may just be a bug, but before submitting I thought I would ask. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jon > > _______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list > > Users@lists.opennebula.org > > http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@lists.opennebula.org > http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org > > -- Ruben S. Montero, PhD Project co-Lead and Chief Architect OpenNebula - The Open Source Solution for Data Center Virtualization www.OpenNebula.org | rsmont...@opennebula.org | @OpenNebula
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