[openstack-dev] [horizon] User registrations

Shake Chen shake.chen at gmail.com
Mon Nov 11 10:26:55 UTC 2013


the most important is the user can get back password, modify own email
address.




On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Lyle, David <david.lyle at hp.com> wrote:

> I think there is certainly interest.  I do think it will need to be highly
> configurable to be useful.  The problem, as Dolph points out, is that each
> deployment has its own workflow.
>
> Points of configuration:
> -Does the local keystone deployment policy support self-registration?  The
> default is no.  So, at that point access to self-registration should be
> hidden.
>
> -How many steps are required in the registration process?
>
> -Is payment information required?  Address?
>
> -How is the registration confirmed, email, text, ?
>
> -CAPTCHA?
>
> I think the two main reasons such a facility is not present in Horizon are:
> 1. Until recently determining keystone's access policy was not possible.
> 2. The actual implementation is highly deployment dependent.
>
> -David
>
> From: Dolph Mathews [mailto:dolph.mathews at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 8:57 AM
> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] User registrations
>
> So, there's a bunch of use case questions here where I suspect there are
> no correct answers (so preferences will vary per deployment). The first
> ones that come to mind-
>
> Are the users accessing this web form trusted or untrusted?
>
> Do they need to be verified, somehow? Are they going to be billed for
> their resource consumption?
>
> After registration, should they own their own domain in keystone? Or be
> assigned their own project in an existing domain? Or simply be added to an
> existing group with limited authorization?
>
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Paul Belanger <
> paul.belanger at polybeacon.com> wrote:
> Greeting,
>
> In a previous thread I talked about building an application atop of
> horizon and keystone.  So far things are working out pretty well.  One
> thing I have been trying to figure out is how to move forward with
> user registration for the horizon application.  A few moons ago, IIRC,
> horizon actually use django-registration however the move to Keystone
> removed that functionality.
>
> For me, I'd like to expose some functionality within my web
> application allow users to register vs having an admin provisioning
> accounts.
>
> So, I'm curious if there is anything interest in having such a module
> back in horizon but leveraging keystone this time around. I'm actually
> curious to hear how people see this working since this is the next
> thing I need to deal with.
>
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