[Openstack] keypair description in documentation wrong?

Jay Pipes jaypipes at gmail.com
Fri Oct 16 16:51:21 UTC 2015


On 10/16/2015 11:08 AM, Chris Friesen wrote:
>
> Someone recently asked me a question about keypairs and multiple users
> and I thought I'd clarify a few things:
>
> 1) Each keypair is associated with a specific user.
>
> 2) A user cannot see a keypair belonging to another user.
>
> 3) If a user is part of multiple projects then any keypair owned by that
> user is available to them regardless of what project they're currently
> using.
>
> Are the above correct?

Yes.

> However, the above information doesn't seem to be explicitly documented
> anywhere.
>
> For example,
> "http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/cli_nova_configure_access_security_for_instances.html"
> says, "You can create at least one key pair for each project. You can
> use the key pair for multiple instances that belong to that project."
> Note the fact that it's talking about the project, not the user.
>
> Similarly,
> "http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/configure_access_and_security_for_instances.html"
> says, "Each project should have at least one key pair.....The key pair
> can be used for multiple instances that belong to a project."  Later on
> it says "Create at least one key pair for each project.".  Again,
> project rather than user.

Yes, I believe the documentation should be fixed to focus on the user 
owner not the project/tenant. Please do file a doc bug.

Thanks Chris!
-jay




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