[openstack-dev] [novaclient]should administrator can see all servers of all tenants by default?

Christopher Yeoh cbkyeoh at gmail.com
Wed Oct 16 04:52:40 UTC 2013


--all-tenants would only be turned on if --tenant was specified, not a
general default. Do you see that causing any problems for non trivial
clouds?

Chris


On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Robert Collins
<robertc at robertcollins.net>wrote:

> Please don't invert the bug though: if --all-tenants becomes the
> default nova server behaviour in v3, please ensure there is a
> --no-all-tenants to unbreak it for non-trivial clouds.
>
> Thanks!
> -Rob
>
> On 15 October 2013 20:54, Lingxian Kong <anlin.kong at gmail.com> wrote:
> > then, what's the conclusion that we can begin to start?
> >
> >
> > 2013/10/15 Christopher Yeoh <cbkyeoh at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Caitlin Bestler
> >> <caitlin.bestler at nexenta.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 10/14/2013 8:37 AM, Ben Nemec wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I agree that this needs to be fixed.  It's very counterintuitive, if
> >>>> nothing else (which is also my argument against requiring all-tenants
> >>>> for admin users in the first place).  The only question for me is
> >>>> whether to fix it in novaclient or in Nova itself.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> If it is fixed in novaclient, then any unscrupulous tenant would be
> able
> >>> to unfix it in novaclient themselves and gain the same information
> about
> >>> other tenants that the bug is allowing.
> >>>
> >>> So if the intent is to protect leakage of information across tenant
> lines
> >>> then the correct solution is a real lock (i.e. in Nova) rather
> >>> than just a screen door "lock".
> >>>
> >>
> >> The novaclient fix for V2 would be simply to automatically pass
> >> all-tenants where needed. It would not give a non admin user any extra
> >> privileges even if they modified novaclient.
> >>
> >> Chris
> >>
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