OMERO user

Create OMERO user accounts and groups.
This will not modify existing users or groups, apart from the user password if force is set.

Dependencies

Assumes the ome.omero_server role is installed with defaults, if not you will have to set most of the role variables below.

This requires features present in OMERO 5.X.

Role Variables

All variables are optional, see defaults/main.yml

Create OMERO user accounts and groups:

• omero_user_bin_omero: The full path to bin/omero application, default /opt/omero/server/OMERO.server/bin/omero
• omero_user_system: Run the omero CLI as this user, default omero (must not be root)
• omero_user_admin_user: Login to OMERO as this admin user, default root

• omero_user_admin_pass: Password for omero_user_admin_user

• omero_user_create: List of dictionaries of OMERO users to create with fields:

  • login: OMERO user-name
  • firstname: First name
  • lastname: Last name
  • password: Password
  • groups: String containing group arguments (see bin/omero user add --help), this must be quoted if the group-names contain spaces or other special characters
  • force: Forcibly reset password, default False (requires direct database access)
• omero_user_reset_root_password: The new OMERO root password (requires direct database access)
• omero_group_create: List of dictionaries of OMERO groups to create with fields:
  • name: Group name
  • type: Group type

Database connection parameters (required if forcibly resetting OMERO user passwords):

• omero_user_dbhost: Database host
• omero_user_dbuser: Database user
• omero_user_dbname: Database name
• omero_user_dbpassword: Database password

Example

Create the user account public and group demo if it doesn’t exist

- hosts: omero-servers
  roles:
  - ome.omero_user
  vars:
  - omero_group_create:
    - name: demo
      type: read-only
  - omero_user_create:
    - login: public
      firstname: public
      lastname: user
      password: public
      groups: "--group-name demo"

Reset the OMERO root password:

- hosts: omero-servers
  roles:
  - ome.omero_user
  vars:
  - omero_user_reset_root_password: "omero root password"
  #- omero_user_dbhost: localhost
  #- omero_user_dbuser: omero
  #- omero_user_dbname: omero
  #- omero_user_dbpassword: omero

Author Information

ome-devel@lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk