Bug 1374314

Summary: explicit required permissions for the Ansible provider user
Product: Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine Reporter: Colin Arnott <carnott>
Component: DocumentationAssignee: Red Hat CloudForms Documentation <cloudforms-docs>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Red Hat CloudForms Documentation <cloudforms-docs>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 5.6.0CC: adahms, bdunne, benglish, gblomqui, hhudgeon, jhardy, mfeifer, obarenbo
Target Milestone: GA   
Target Release: 5.7.0   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Description Colin Arnott 2016-09-08 12:31:15 UTC 
Document URL: 
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-cloudforms/4.1/managing-providers/#adding_an_ansible_tower_provider

Section Number and Name: 
2.2.1.5 Adding an Ansible Tower Provider: credentials

Describe the issue: 
The Ansible provider currently provides no requirements for privilege level on the authenticating user, my security standards prevent me from giving cart blanch access to my Ansible environment. Can you please enumerate the permissions required by CFME so that I can use least privilege when creating the CFME user for my Ansible environment.

Suggestions for improvement: 
Add a section indicating required permissions for the Ansible provider.

Additional information:
Comment 3 Andrew Dahms 2016-10-31 01:03:03 UTC 
Moving to the default assignee for triaging.

Raising needinfo against Brandon for comment #2.
Comment 7 Andrew Dahms 2018-04-04 04:41:55 UTC 
Thank you for raising this bug.

After further discussion with the program team, we have been given the advice not to document specific permissions for service accounts at this time based on the following article -

http://cloudformsblog.redhat.com/2017/08/16/security-management-operations/

As such, I will be closing this bug for now, but we can re-investigate this request again in the future if required.