Right after
my last VMware vCloud Director implementation, the client stated their users were not available.
That’s what
happened:
When trying
to share a vApp with another user or even changing the ownership of it, they
realize that the user they want to transfer the privilege to is not available
or even worst, no user is displayed at all.
They are
using the best practices for managing privileges, granting privileges on their
Org based on a LPAD user’s group, but the members of that groups is also empty.
Don’t
PANIC, it’s the default behavior of VMware vCloud Director, those members will
just be populated and become available once they login at least once on your
Organization.
Just ask
them to login and soon you will see it’s name available on the group.
then you will be able to grant them the privileges you need.
If you
think about it for a second, it makes perfect sense, there’s no need for vCloud
to load all the users of a LDAP group for every Org upfront, just synchronizing
and uploading them when they really make use of the Cloud.
