Creating Ceph Object Gateway subusers

A subuser is associated with a user of the S3 interface. You can create a subuser for a specific Ceph Object Gateway user on the IBM Storage Ceph dashboard.

Prerequisites

  • A running IBM Storage Ceph cluster.
  • Dashboard is installed.
  • The Ceph Object Gateway is installed.
  • Ceph Object Gateway login credentials are added to the dashboard.
  • Ceph Object Gateway user is created.

Procedure

  1. From the dashboard navigation, go to Object > Users.

  2. On the Users tab, select a user and click Edit.

  3. In the Edit User form, from the Subusers section, click Create Subuser.

  4. In the Create Subuser dialog, enter the Subuser and select the appropriate permissions.

  5. Select Auto-generate secret and click Create Subuser.
    Note: Selecting Auto-generate-secret automatically generates the Ceph Object Gateway secret key.
    Figure 1. Create Subuser form

    Create a Subuser form within the dashboard. Within this form, fill in the Subuser field and select the read or write Permission from the selection box.

  6. In the Edit User form, save your changes by clicking Edit user.

    A notification displays that the Object Gateway user was updated successfully.