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Mastering Proxmox

You're reading from   Mastering Proxmox Master Proxmox VE to effectively implement server virtualization technology within your network

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783980826
Length 310 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Wasim Ahmed Wasim Ahmed
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Preface 1. Dive into the Virtual World with Proxmox FREE CHAPTER 2. Proxmox Under the Hood 3. Shared Storages with Proxmox 4. A Virtual Machine for a Virtual World 5. Network of Virtual Networks 6. Proxmox HA – Zero Downtime 7. High Availability Storage for High Availability Cluster 8. Proxmox Production Level Setup 9. Proxmox Troubleshooting 10. Putting It All Together Index

User configuration files

The user.cfg file holds all user and group information in the cluster and is located under /etc/pve/. It follows the following format to store all user information:

  • For user information, the format is as follows:
    <type>:<user>@realm:enable:expiry:f_name:l_name:email:comment
  • For group information, the format is as follows:
    <type>:<group_name>:user@realm:comment

Based on this format, the following is what our user.cfg file looks like right now. Depending on user information you have entered, the file content may vary:

user:root@pam:1:0:::admin@domain.com::
user:pmxuser@pve:1:0:ABC:XYZ:pmxuser@domain.com:A User:

group:test:wahmed@pve:This is Test Group:

Note that the file user.cfg does not hold any user password. This information is stored under /etc/pve/priv/shadow.cfg.

The password configuration file

The password configuration file is located under /etc/pve/priv/shadow.cfg and stores all the passwords for users in the cluster. The format is rather...

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