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<div>Hi Xuyun,</div>
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<div>Creating a user with a password is all you need to authenticate and get a token. The 'keystone-manage credentials' command is to add any additional credentials like EC2 (AWS) credentials or API keys.</div>
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<div>I'm not an expert on the swift command, but I believe it might work if you pass the password as your API key…</div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
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<div>Ziad</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Xuyun Zhang <<a href="mailto:xyzhanggz@gmail.com">xyzhanggz@gmail.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:30:13 +1100<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span><<a href="mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net">openstack@lists.launchpad.net</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[Openstack] About keystone concepts: the difference between the key of a credential and the password of a user<br>
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I was really confused by the concepts in keystone (I'm a beginner to OpenStack). When we create a user, we should set the username and password for this user. According the command "keystone-manage credentials add [username] [type] [key] [password]([tenant_name])",
we still need a key and a password for a credential. But they are different from the username and password we created for a user.
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When we use swift command "swift -A <url> -U <user> -K <key> operation" to connect the swift proxy, the <user> and <key> appear to be the username and password created for a user.<br>
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So, could anyone please help me to clear these concepts and the relationships among them? I'v got stuck to run swift and keystone for a while.<br>
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Thanks<br>
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Regards,<br>
Sean<br>
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