[openstack-dev] Using AD for keystone authentication only

Dolph Mathews dolph.mathews at gmail.com
Thu Nov 14 15:07:28 UTC 2013


You can assign roles to users in keystoneclient ($ keystone help
user-role-add) -- the assignment would be persisted in SQL. openstackclient
supports assignments to groups as well if you switch to
--identity-api-version=3

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Avi L <aviostack at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh ok so in this case how does the Active Directory user gets a id , and
> how do you map the user to a role? Is there any example you can point me
> to?
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Dolph Mathews <dolph.mathews at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Yes, that's the preferred approach in Havana: Users and Groups via LDAP,
>> and everything else via SQL.
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, November 13, 2013, Avi L wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I understand that the LDAP provider in keystone can be used for
>>> authenticating a user (i.e validate username and password) , and it also
>>> authorize it against roles and tenant. However this requires AD schema
>>> modification. Is it possible to use AD only for authentication and then use
>>> keystone's native database for roles and tenant lookup? The advantage is
>>> that then we don't need to touch the enterprise AD installation.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Al
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> -Dolph
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