Re: [GSoC] Accounts vs User

2013-06-09 Thread kel...@backbonetechnology.com
This might help if your interested in how Ops/Users view these concepts: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/2012/09/13/A-CS+Post+Install+Architecture Sent from my HTC - Reply message - From: "Mathias Mullins" To: "dev@cloudstack.apache.org" Subj

Re: [GSoC] Accounts vs User

2013-06-09 Thread Mathias Mullins
Ian, I'm going to add one more example that may clears it up for a lot of people I work with. Accounts are the organization / company / group , etc... Users are the people in that organization / company / group 1. With active Directory it is usually more logical to map the OU to the Cloudstack

Re: [GSoC] Accounts vs User

2013-06-09 Thread Ian Duffy
Thanks for the replies! > We need to figure out the most > efficient way to map ldap users to > domains/accounts/users. So would it be logical to: 1) Create a mapping between organizational units and cloudstack domains? 2) Create accounts that are independent to cloudstack but require that a us

Re: [GSoC] Accounts vs User

2013-06-09 Thread Nitin Mehta
In addition, please refer to the wiki below. Feel free to add https://cwiki.apache.org/CLOUDSTACK/accounts-domains-and-admin-explained.ht ml Thanks, -Nitin On 09/06/13 10:03 PM, "Abhinandan Prateek" wrote: >Ian, > >In cloudstack a "Domain" is a unit of isolation that represents a >customer

Re: [GSoC] Accounts vs User

2013-06-09 Thread Abhinandan Prateek
Ian, In cloudstack a "Domain" is a unit of isolation that represents a customer org, business unit or a reseller. A domain can have arbitrary level of sub-domains. A domain can have one or more accounts. A account is the basic unit of isolation. Multiple users can exists in an account. Users

[GSoC] Accounts vs User

2013-06-09 Thread Ian Duffy
Hi, I was just wondering about the difference between an "account" and a "user", the naming of and layout to me seems unclear. When you navigate to Accounts and click "Add Account" it creates an account with the given information and a user. When you open up the Account you have just created you