Users and Groups

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Overview

HyperCX includes a complete user & group management system. Users in an HyperCX infrastructure are classified in four types:

Administrator user belongs to an admin group (oneadmin or otherwise) and can perform any operations. Oneadmin is the default admin account of the system and must not be removed.
Service users use a service user account used by the HyperCX services (i.e. serveradmin). These users are used for internal operations only and must not be removed.
Group admins will be able to perform all tasks that a regular user can, and on top of that it will be able to control some elements from his group (like adding new users to his group.
Regular users that may access most HyperCX functionality (defined by the admin).

The resources a user may access in HyperCX are controlled by a permissions system that resembles the typical UNIX one. By default, only the owner of a resource (e.g. a VM or an image) can use and manage it. Users can easily share the resources by granting use or manage permissions to other users in her group or to any other user in the system. Upon group creation, an associated admin user can be created. By default this user will be able to create users in the new group, and manage non owned resources for the regular group, through HyperCX portal. This group can also be assigned to VDC, what is basically a pool of HyperCX physical resources (hosts, datastores and virtual networks).

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