[BUG-2.11] UI prompts tenant selection at every first login

[hengirmen]

What is the bug?

• Whenever the OpenSearch Dashboards UI is accessed on a new machine "Select your tenant" window pops up, even though multi-tenancy is disabled. We don't want the customers and common users to see this prompt since it could be confusing.

• Also, when the multi-tenancy is enabled and default tenant is set to "Private", UI still prompts tenant selection.

How can one reproduce the bug?
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Open OpenSearch Dashboards UI in a browser.
2. Log in with user credentials.
3. UI prompts the user to select the tenant.

What is the expected behavior?

• When multi-tenancy is disabled, we expect the users to access the dashboards directly without facing this prompt.

• Also when the multi-tenancy is enabled and a default tenant is set, we don't want the users to see the tenant selection window.

Do you have any screenshots?
Figure 1: Multi-tenancy is disabled, yet the prompt to set tenants still pops up.

Figure 2: Multi-tenancy is enabled, default tenant is set, yet the prompt pops up with every first login.

[stephen-crawford]

[Triage] Hi @hengirmen, thank you for filing this issue and the detailed info. Someone will reach out for some UX/UI guidance from another project member and hopefully we can improve this for you! You are also encouraged to open a pull request with the change in behavior should you be interested in seeing this change expedited.

[hengirmen]

Hi @scrawfor99 , thanks for the response. Any updates yet?

[peternied]

Thanks for checking in @hengirmen, my team is entering it a new sprint next week and I've earmarked this issue. More updates forthcoming...

[wbeckler]

Will this be backported into prior versions that include the bug? Also, what is the workaround for someone who has security enabled and wants to suppress the popup? Is it enough to map a role to a default tenant?

[cwperks]

@wbeckler There is no planned patch releases for any of the impacted branches so while it can be backported to those branches, it would never be officially released. This bug impacts versions 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10 and 2.11.

The workaround is to disable multi-tenancy through opensearch_dashboards.yml instead of disabling through the UI dynamically.

> opensearch_dashboards.yml

opensearch_security.multitenancy.enabled: false

Please note that this settings acts as a feature flag and to re-enable multi-tenancy would require a reboot of OSD. When this setting is set to false, you cannot enable multi-tenancy through the Security pages in OSD.

[wbeckler]

Can this be backported to at least 2.11, so that future patches will include that fix?

[DarshitChanpura]

@wbeckler the change is ready to be backported to 2.11: #1765
Is there a planned patch release for 2.11.1?

[cwperks]

Is there a planned patch release for 2.11.1

2.11.1 is already released. There is no current plan for 2.11.2. Generally only security fixes are included for patch releases.

[DarshitChanpura]

oops.. I meant 2.11.2

[davidlago]

Once 2.12 goes out, there will not be 2.11 patches anyway.

[DarshitChanpura]

In that case I will close: #1765