[openstack-dev] [Keystone] Access-key like authentication with password-rotation

Tristan Cacqueray tristan.cacqueray at enovance.com
Thu Jan 16 10:48:40 UTC 2014


Hi,

I'd like to check in on this authentication mechanism.
Keystone should have some kind of apiKey in order to prevent developer
from storing their credential (username/password) in clear text
configuration file.

There are two blueprints that can tackle this feature, yet they
are both in needs of approval

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/keystone/+spec/access-key-authentication
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/keystone/+spec/password-rotation


I believe the access-key-authentication have been superseded by the
password-rotation. Meaning:
* The user create a secondary password.
* He can use this new password to authenticate API request
  with the credential_id + password.
* He won't be able to login to Horizon as it will try to authenticate
  with the user_id + password (Keystone will match those against the
  "default_credential_id".)
* API request like password change should be denied if the user didn't
  used his "default_credential_id".

Did I get this right ?


Best regards,
Tristan

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