[openstack-dev] Expired tokens in Keystone

Ravi Chunduru ravivsn at gmail.com
Fri Jun 14 14:32:17 UTC 2013


I asked this question in different thread but no response.

Why does keystone not re-use the token the one it has already issued for
the same credentials. Any reason for not doing that?

Thanks,
-Ravi.

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 06/12/2013 12:54 PM, Craig E. Ward wrote:
>
>> I am working with a Folsom installation of OpenStack. The Keystone
>> database (mysql) gets very large. The token table has millions of rows
>> of expired tokens. Is there a reason not to delete these from the table?
>>
>
> Not unless you need them for some security auditing purpose... and if you
> don't, I recommend switching to the memcache token driver. It's faster and
> doesn't have the drawback of filling up your identity database will
> millions of token records.
>
> best,
> -jay
>
>
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Ravi
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