[openstack-dev] Expired tokens in Keystone

Ravi Chunduru ravivsn at gmail.com
Fri Jun 14 20:24:09 UTC 2013


On the problem you described, I like the idea of configuration parameter
for what point we need to issue vs re-use.

Thanks,
-Ravi.

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Yee, Guang <guang.yee at hp.com> wrote:

> I think there was a case in which user started a VM snapshot in Nova with
> a to-be-expired token and by the time the snapshot reached Glance the token
> had already expired. ****
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> But I like the idea of token reuse. Probably need a configurable parameter
> to determine at what point we need to issue a new token versus reusing an
> existing one. Maybe a good topic for the next Summit?****
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> Guang****
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> *From:* Ravi Chunduru [mailto:ravivsn at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, June 14, 2013 7:32 AM
> *To:* OpenStack Development Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [openstack-dev] Expired tokens in Keystone****
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> I asked this question in different thread but no response.****
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> Why does keystone not re-use the token the one it has already issued for
> the same credentials. Any reason for not doing that?****
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> Thanks,****
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> -Ravi.****
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> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com> wrote:***
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> On 06/12/2013 12:54 PM, Craig E. Ward wrote:****
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> 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?**
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> 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.
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> best,
> -jay****
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