[Openstack] Keyring support in openstack

Adam Young ayoung at redhat.com
Mon Jul 30 21:30:24 UTC 2012


On 07/30/2012 05:17 PM, Kevin L. Mitchell wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 13:50 -0700, Bhuvaneswaran A wrote:
>>> The wiki mentions the password being saved using
>>> keyring.backend.UncryptedFileKeyring. Does that mean the password is
>> saved
>>> in cleartext? Is the file protected in some way besides filesystem
>>> permissions?
>> As mentioned in wiki page, the password is stored in base64 format.
> Which means it's stored in cleartext.  That is Not Good(tm) :)
Can Keyring be used to store a token instead?  That would A)  be better 
than password and B)  avoid a Keystone hit.





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