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Is there ever a situation where you would use tenant_id and not want 
all_tenants=1?  If there is then I can maybe see leaving it, but if 
tenant_id implies all_tenants=1 then IMHO it's rather poor to force the 
user to remember to set it.

To be honest, as someone fairly new to OpenStack I found it very 
unintuitive that a request made as an admin user doesn't behave as 
though it came from an admin unless an extra option is set.  By way of 
analogy, I feel like this would be similar to if vim required you to do 
"# vim --as-root some-file" to edit a file as root.  I already 
authenticated as root (or admin), why are you forcing me to reiterate 
that I am?  If I don't want admin privileges I won't use an admin user.

/my 2 cents

-Ben

On 2013-06-17 12:12, Chris Behrens wrote:
> The original intent behind 'all_tenants=1' was whether or not to
> include all instances for all tenants in the filtering process.
> Basically it means "Should I operate as admin or not?". I still view
> it this way, and would prefer it still mean this (although it might be
> more clear with a different name).
> 
> This means that if you're an admin… you're not treated as one UNTIL
> you specify all_tenants=1. So technically I think specifying a
> 'tenant_id' filter should raise or do whatever it does for a normal
> user. I don't think specifying a 'tenant_id' filter should mean that
> we automatically turn 'all_tenants' on.
> 
> I don't see the bug deal in needing to remember to use all_tenants=1
> so that all instances will be filtered, not just the instances belong
> to the admin user.
> 
> My opinion,
> 
> - Chris
> 
> On Jun 16, 2013, at 11:09 PM, Aarti Mahesh Kriplani
> <aarti.kriplani at RACKSPACE.COM> wrote:
> 
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> There have been a few contrasting views on this bug
>> [1]<https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1185290 [1]>.
>> I would really like some views on how we want to use the
>> all-tenenats flag going ahead.
>> Comments/Suggestions?
>> 
>> Thanks,
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> 
> 
> Links:
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> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1185290
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