OMV Users & Groups
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Users
Lets take a minute to talk about users in OpenMediaVault. Users are the people who can either log into the GUI, command line, and/or access shared folders. By default, OMV has a root user and and admin user. We talked a bit about securing access to these users during the initial setup.
Navigating to Users > Users will show the active users in the OMV system, minus the root and admin accounts. To create a new user, simply click “create” (the plus icon) to open the wizard. Here we can set a new users name, password, groups, and shell permissions. For example, I will add myself as a user without shell access and as a part of the “users” group. Vary these settings in accordance with the user’s requirements.
These user credentials will be used to access limits parts of OMV’s GUI but more importantly for accessing network shares.
Groups
By default, all users will be assigned to the group “users”. We can also use the groups feature in conjunction with access control lists (ACLs) later down the line to restrict access to shares. Under Users > Groups we can modify these settings. For example, I have created a group (anthony) for myself that only contains my user (anthony). I’ve also created a family group that contains myself and the other members of my household.
Docker/App Users
I pursued the idea of creating an application, “appuser”, user for use with Docker. Due to some limitations with the Frigate container, this was not 100% feasible. I plan to revisit this if/when the need arises. In the meantime, more information about an “appuser” account and its importance for security with Docker can be found here in the omv-extras docs.