It’s always bit of confusing about OpenShift 4 :D here’s how we can add user in OpenShift 4.

  • Create htpasswd file as below and users and their passwords,
$ htpasswd -cb users.htpasswd user1 user1pass

$ htpasswd -b users.htpasswd user2 user2pass

  • Through console, login with kube:admin user, navigate to Administration > Cluster Settings > Global Configuration

  • Click on Edit YAML in front of Oauth

  • Click on Overview, under Identity Providers section, Click on Add and select HTPasswd

  • put name as htpasswd, mapping method as add and select file which we created earlier using htpasswd.

  • Check Yaml section and verify that block as following should appear under spec:

  identityProviders:
    - htpasswd:
        fileData:
          name: htpasswd-qbwc4
      mappingMethod: add
      name: htpasswd
      type: HTPasswd
  • Verify users,
$ oc login -u system:admin

$ oc get users
NAME        UID                                    FULL NAME   IDENTITIES
user1       5699e114-5e0d-11e9-9a49-0a580a800045               htpasswd:avni
user2       8c932519-5e0d-11e9-9a49-0a580a800045               htpasswd:developer
  • Now you can login with your new users,

for example,

oc login -u user1 -p user1pass
  • Happy Hacking :)