Manage users and teams in development environments

Create new users

Local

In environments that use the test OpenID provider, such as the development appserver started via make run, you can create a new account using the utilities/make-lp-user script and log into that account at https://launchpad.test/.

For example, to add user ~test-user, navigate to your local Launchpad repo and run: utilities/make-lp-user test-user.

Staging/Qastaging

Some development environments, such as those deployed using the Mojo spec, use production Single Sign-On for authentication. In these environments, you should not use utilities/make-lp-user; instead, log into https://{qastaging,staging}.launchpad.net/ via SSO as you would on production to create your user.

Add user to a team

Let’s say we created a new ~test-user user in the previous section, and we want to add it to the ~admins team. We can use the utilities/anoint-team-member script within the Launchpad repo for this purpose.

For staging and qastaging we should:

1. SSH into launchpad-bastion-ps5, and switch to the stg-launchpad user by running sudo -iu stg-launchpad.

2. SSH into the launchpad-admin juju unit, by running in-model qastaging juju ssh launchpad-admin/leader.

3. Add the user to the team by running:

/srv/launchpad/code/utilities/anoint-team-member <username> <team-name>

In our example:

/srv/launchpad/code/utilities/anoint-team-member test-user admins

Note

While running Launchpad scripts, it is often necessary to specify the LPCONFIG environment variable with an appropriate value, for example LPCONFIG=launchpad-admin, before the invocation to use the right Launchpad configuration for the current unit. This is not necessary here because it is already set in the environment within the launchpad-admin unit. Running this command in another unit, say launchpad-scripts, would require running it as

LPCONFIG=launchpad-scripts /srv/launchpad/code/utilities/anoint-team-member <username> <team-name>