[openstack-dev] V3 credentials API

Dolph Mathews dolph.mathews at gmail.com
Thu Jan 10 22:20:12 UTC 2013


Credentials are described in the v3 spec[1] and it was specifically
designed to make the existing 'ec2' credential storage more generic (so to
answer your question: yes, credentials are only valid only for that tenant).

[1]:
https://github.com/openstack/identity-api/blob/master/openstack-identity-api/src/markdown/identity-api-v3.md#credentials-v3credentials


-Dolph


On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Ali, Haneef <haneef.ali at hp.com> wrote:

>  Hi,****
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> In V3 api credentials is associated with  projectId.  What is the use case
> for it?  Does this  mean a user can access that tenant using only that
> credentials or that credentials is valid only for that tenant?****
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> Also credentials has a “type” attribute. It will be useful  if keystone
> defines some standard credential types. e.g   It will cause confusion if
> one user creates  ‘ec2”  credential with type “ec2” and anointer one
> creates with type “AmazonEC2”.****
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> Thanks****
>
> Haneef****
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