User settings are configured separately from the system settings. You can change user settings in the Harbor interface, through HTTP requests, or using an environment variable. This page describes the available user settings, and how to use the commandline or environment variable to update user settings.

See the Managing Users section for more information about updating user settings through the Harbor interface.

Example Configuration Commands for the Commandline

Add a new user in the local database:

curl -X PUT -u "<username>:<password>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -ki <Harbor Server URL>/api/v2.0/configurations -d'{"<item_name>":"<item_value>"}'

Get the current configuration:

curl -u "<username>:<password>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -ki <Harbor Server URL>/api/v2.0/configurations

Update Harbor to use LDAP authentication:

Command

curl -X PUT -u "<username>:<password>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -ki https://harbor.sample.domain/api/v2.0/configurations -d'{"auth_mode":"ldap_auth"}'

Output

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 08:22:02 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 0
Connection: keep-alive
Set-Cookie: sid=a5803a1265e2b095cf65ce1d8bbd79b1; Path=/; HttpOnly

Restrict project creation to Harbor administrators:

Command

curl -X PUT -u "<username>:<password>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -ki https://harbor.sample.domain/api/v2.0/configurations -d'{"project_creation_restriction":"adminonly"}'

Output

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 08:24:32 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 0
Connection: keep-alive
Set-Cookie: sid=b7925eaf7af53bdefb13bdcae201a14a; Path=/; HttpOnly

Update the token expiration time:

Command

curl -X PUT -u "<username>:<password>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -ki https://harbor.sample.domain/api/v2.0/configurations -d'{"token_expiration":"300"}'

Output

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 08:23:38 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 0
Connection: keep-alive
Set-Cookie: sid=cc1bc93ffa2675253fc62b4bf3d9de0e; Path=/; HttpOnly

Configure Users Settings using an Environment Variable

Introduced in 2.3.0 is the ability to use an environment variable, CONFIG_OVERWRITE_JSON, in the core container to configure user settings. Once the CONFIG_OVERWRITE_JSON variable is set, you can only update or remove settings by updating the CONFIG_OVERWRITE_JSON and restarting the container. You will not be able to update user settings in the Harbor interface or in the commandline.

Example CONFIG_OVERWRITE_JSON configuration:

CONFIG_OVERWRITE_JSON={"ldap_verify_cert":"false", "auth_mode":"ldap_auth","ldap_base_dn":"dc=example,dc=com", "ldap_search_dn":"cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com","ldap_search_password":"admin","ldap_url":"myldap.example.com", "ldap_scope":2}

See the user settings table below for more information about available inputs for CONFIG_OVERWRITE_JSON.

If there is a legacy user in your instance of Harbor, the authentication mode can’t be changed by the environment variable CONFIG_OVERWRITE_JSON.

Harbor user settings

Both booleans and numbers can be enclosed with double quote in the request json, for example: 123, "123", "true" or true is OK.