<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Adam Young <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ayoung@redhat.com" target="_blank">ayoung@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

  
    
  
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    <div>On 07/30/2012 06:00 PM, Doug Hellmann
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      <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Adam
        Young <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ayoung@redhat.com" target="_blank">ayoung@redhat.com</a>></span>
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          <div>On 07/30/2012 05:17 PM, Kevin L. Mitchell
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              On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 13:50 -0700, Bhuvaneswaran A wrote:<br>
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                  The wiki mentions the password being saved using<br>
                  keyring.backend.UncryptedFileKeyring. Does that mean
                  the password is<br>
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                saved<br>
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                  in cleartext? Is the file protected in some way
                  besides filesystem<br>
                  permissions?<br>
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                As mentioned in wiki page, the password is stored in
                base64 format.<br>
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              Which means it's stored in cleartext.  That is Not
              Good(tm) :)<br>
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          Can Keyring be used to store a token instead?  That would A)
           be better than password and B)  avoid a Keystone hit.</blockquote>
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        <div>Don't tokens expire?</div>
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    Yes, they do, but that is no reason not to put them in the keyring,<br>
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    With the PKI tokens,  you will be able to query a token's expiry
    without going across the wire.<br></div></blockquote><div><br>Adam, can you please file a ticket to use keyring to store tokens for keystone? I'll work on it.<br></div></div>-- <br>Regards,<br>Bhuvaneswaran A<br>
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