Template - How to change owner account?

[EduFrazao]

Its possible to change the owner account of a template? Did not find any API method for this (or in the UI).

[Pearl1594]

@EduFrazao You can share a template with other accounts / projects using the updateTemplatePermissions API or

in the UI. But it doesn't change the ownership.

[EduFrazao]

Hi @Pearl1594
Yes, i've see this option, but in this case I really want to "transfer" the template to another account, like we do with vms.
But there is no problem, its just for organization! Thank you!

[marving123]

@EduFrazao

I checked this as well, and I don't see a supported API to directly change the owner of an existing template.

As Pearl mentioned, updateTemplatePermissions can give another account access to the template, but the original account remains the owner.

If you really need the new account to own it, one workaround would be to register/create a new copy of the template under that account. A root admin can specify the target account and domain while registering a template.

I would avoid changing the ownership directly in the CloudStack database, as there may be other references and resource accounting involved. Just curious, is there a specific reason you need to change the owner instead of sharing the template with the other account?

Marvin AccuWeb.Cloud

[EduFrazao]

Hi @marving123 .
Its just for organization.
I have a "system" account, that holds templates and builders (vms used to build templates like for ms windows server, etc).
I also have an automated task that builds Linux templates from their original images, installing and enabling qemu-guest-agent. This tasks uses a specific cloudstack user + account but there is some templates that is under "admin" account as owner.
Its not a problem anyway, just to keep things in their places :)