Dear all,

I'm running OpenStack Caracal on AlmaLinux 9.5 and I'm trying to modify the nova policy file to allow the reboot of a server only to the admin and to the owner of the VM (but not to all members of the same project).

I have updated the policy (as I already dis for other actions like stop) as follows:

"os_compute_api:servers:reboot": "rule:context_is_admin or user_id:%(user_id)s"

But the owner is unable to perform the reboot.

When I try to reboot one of my own instances I get the following error:

>openstack server reboot 97a32e4c-2e56-4d75-b0c4-5ac4da278421 --debug

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cliff/app.py", line 410, in run_subcommand
result = cmd.run(parsed_args)
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/osc_lib/command/command.py", line 38, in run
return super(Command, self).run(parsed_args)
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cliff/command.py", line 181, in run
return_code = self.take_action(parsed_args) or 0
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/openstackclient/compute/v2/server.py", line 3279, in take_action
compute_client.reboot_server(server_id, parsed_args.reboot_type)
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/openstack/compute/v2/_proxy.py", line 879, in reboot_server
server.reboot(self, reboot_type)
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/openstack/compute/v2/server.py", line 353, in reboot
self._action(session, body)
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/openstack/compute/v2/server.py", line 318, in _action
exceptions.raise_from_response(response)
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/openstack/exceptions.py", line 247, in raise_from_response
raise cls(
openstack.exceptions.ForbiddenException: ForbiddenException: 403: Client Error for url: https://cloud-areapd-test.pd.infn.it:8774/v2.1/servers/97a32e4c-2e56-4d75-b0c4-5ac4da278421/action, Policy doesn't allow os_compute_api:servers:reboot to be performed.
clean_up RebootServer: ForbiddenException: 403: Client Error for url: https://cloud-areapd-test.pd.infn.it:8774/v2.1/servers/97a32e4c-2e56-4d75-b0c4-5ac4da278421/action, Policy doesn't allow os_compute_api:servers:reboot to be performed.
END return value: 1

Do you know what could be causing this?

I’m able to start and stop this same VM without any issues, so I expected reboot to work with the same policy.

Thanks,

cheers

   Federica


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INFN Sezione di Padova
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35131 Padova - Italy

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