Latest version: 4.3.x

Users

Users can login and perform operations based on the permissions of their Group.

Authentication

Users can authenticate via LDAP/AD or Kerberos or SAML2.0 or Basic auth.

To use cascading authentication, for example, internal users authenticate via LDAP and external platform users via SSO review the reference documentation .

Remember that Lenses comes with a default user in order to allow the first login and setup process. The default username and password is admin / admin. To disable after the installation view the reference documentation

Authorization

Authorization (Role Based Access/RBAC) and fine-grained permissions is done in the Groups section.

Authenticating users

The bellow section of the help center is relevant for managing users under pure Authentication like Basic or Kerberos. When managing user-groups in LDAP, Active Directory or SAML2.0 you should use directly the Groups permissions.

  1. From the Header Bar Menu, go to Admin panel.
  2. On the side navigation, select Users.

Users

Manage users

When using Basic authentication, it means Lenses manages each user name and password. Each user has to be linked to at least one Group.

  1. Click on the New User button.
  2. Select Basic or Kerberos as the authentication.
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  1. Fill in the form details as appear below.
User Create
For other Types ie. LDAP, you need to create users in your LDAP management tool.

Manage users

You can edit, change the password, or delete a user by navigating to the User details and selecting the options menu at the right top of the page.

Users

Automation

For automation use the API and CLI