Prepare platform gateway accounts for the 2.7 upgrade

In Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6, users without a platform gateway account can authenticate using an automation controller password. In Ansible Automation Platform 2.7, this fallback authentication mechanism is removed.

About this task

Important

You must configure platform gateway accounts for all users before upgrading. Users cannot authenticate after the upgrade if they rely on the automation controller password fallback.

Procedure

  1. Identify users who authenticate through the automation controller password fallback.
  2. Create platform gateway accounts for these users or instruct users to set platform gateway passwords.
    Note

    If you miss this step before upgrading, automation controller accounts are automatically created in platform gateway during the upgrade, but passwords are not set. Users with automatically-created accounts must reset their passwords before they can log in.

Results

Confirm that all active users can log in to their platform gateway accounts.