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Document URL: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-cloudforms/4.1/managing-providers/#adding_a_vmware_vcenter_provider Section Number and Name: 1.4.1.7 Describe the issue: The VMware provider currently requires the VMware vCenter administrative user, my security standards prevent me from giving cart blanch access to my VMware environment. Can you please enumerate the permissions required by CFME so that I can use least privilege when creating the CFME user for my VMware environment. Suggestions for improvement: Add a section indicating required permissions for the VMware provider. Additional information:
Sorry, I missed the section name Section Number and Name: 1.4.1.7 Adding a VMware vCenter Provider: login credentials
Moving to the default assignee for triage. Raising needinfo against Adam for comment #5.
There is a section in the documentation (1.4.2.1. Using a Non-Administrator Account for Host Credentials) that says specifically it is for VMware Hosts but it looks like it'd be a good starting point for VC credentials as well. We can go through all the API calls we use and check the SDK docs for required permissions but this will take a bit of time.
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.