[Openstack] Identity API v3 - Why allow multi-tenant users?

Adam Young ayoung at redhat.com
Tue Jul 17 17:54:44 UTC 2012


On 05/29/2012 01:18 PM, Caitlin Bestler wrote:
>
> One of the major complication I see in the API is that users can be 
> associated with multiple tenants.
>
> What is the benefit of this? What functionality would be lost if a 
> human user merely had to use a different account with each tenant?
>
> There are numerous issues with multi-tenant users. For example, if a 
> user is associated with multiple tenants, who resets the user's password?
>
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Did you ever get an answer?  This has been discussed in depth.

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