Managing Single Sign-On users with vSphere Web Client

Single Sign-On users are managed in a similar way to users from other external directories except that these users and groups are specific to the SSO directory within vSphere. Users and groups can be added, modified, and deleted through vSphere Web Client.

Getting ready

In order to proceed, we require access to vSphere Web Client. The client can be run on any modern Windows desktop operating system or server operating system.

Note

vSphere Web Client requires Adobe Flash, which is not supported on Linux operating systems at this time.

We must be logged into vSphere Web Client with a user account in the administrators group. By default, [e-mail] is the administrator account for SSO.

How to do it…

In this section, we'll cover how to create a new user and add them to a group:

1. Log in to vSphere Web Client (in our example, at https://vcenter55.training.lab:9443/vsphere-client/).
2. Navigate to the Administration view.
3. Expand...