{"id":4573,"date":"2021-01-11T12:46:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T23:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/?p=4573"},"modified":"2023-07-09T19:28:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T07:28:25","slug":"reinstate-deleted-user-okd-4-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/?p=4573","title":{"rendered":"Reinstate deleted user OKD 4.5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I had an OKD 4.5 user which authenticated against htpasswd. This user was a member of a group and admin role binding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I then deleted the user through the web console:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The problem came when I wanted to re-enable the user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adding a user in OKD involves adding an authentication mechanism, IDP, such as htpasswd, LDAP or Google. Then when the user logged in their name appeared in the list of users – albeit without any access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So when I tried to login as the deleted user it wouldn’t let me giving me an “authentication error”:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There doesn’t seem to be any obvious way to fix the issue. Certainly I could not find anything in the web console.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solution<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The solution turned out to be really simple. From a command line and logged in as an oc user with admin rights run:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

oc delete identity htpasswd:admin<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
The name of the user is “admin” and the authentication mechanism is “htpasswd”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After doing the above the user appeared in the list of users and could be added to groups etc.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I had an OKD 4.5 user which authenticated against htpasswd. This user was a member of a group and admin role binding. I then deleted the user through the web console: The problem came when I wanted to re-enable the user. Adding a user in OKD involves adding an authentication mechanism, IDP, such as htpasswd, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[796,677],"tags":[695,98,694,696,668,700,679,678,698,697,701,693,699],"class_list":["post-4573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home-page","category-openshift-okd","tag-add","tag-delete","tag-deleted","tag-enable","tag-fix","tag-group","tag-okd","tag-openshift","tag-re-enable","tag-reenable","tag-role","tag-user","tag-user-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4573"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5448,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions\/5448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}