[Openstack] nova user management without the dashboard

Rafael Durán Castañeda rafadurancastaneda at gmail.com
Thu May 24 20:16:13 UTC 2012


El 24/05/12 20:36, Sharif Islam escribió:
> Is anyone using nova without utilizing the dashboard?
>
> Most of our users are used to ec2 api from the command line so we are
> thinking about generating the credential files and placing them in
> user's home directory. The idea is to avoid the extra step of login to
> the dashboard and grabbing the file. However, keystone seems to not have
> a equivalent command like this:
>
> nova-manage project zipfile projectname username
> username-projectname-nova.zip
>
>
>
> --sharif
>
Hi,

You can create credentials with keystone command line, parse the output 
and then build your credentials file. See the keystone sample_data.sh 
script (just at then end ec2 credentials are created).

https://github.com/openstack/keystone/blob/master/tools/sample_data.sh#L238

HTH,
Rafael




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