[openstack-dev] [keysstone] External authentication

Ralf Haferkamp rhafer at suse.de
Thu Oct 25 15:37:32 UTC 2012


On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:43:34AM -0400, Adam Young wrote:
> WRT to your comment:
> 
> "I'd prefer if it would be possible to explicitly enable/disable
> REMOTE_USER authentication?"
> 
> I'd prefere to postpone that.  If you don't set up the web server
> for external auth explicitly,  you will never get it here.  An
> additional config value is overkill.
Ok, that's right. Point taken.

> However, we are reworking the authentication function to be a
> confgurable stack.  At that point, the end user will have the
> ability to enable/disable the REMOTE_USER rule by specifying that it
> should/should not be used.
>
> Any additional questions, come talk in #openstack-dev on Freenode

-- 
regards,
    Ralf



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