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On 06/21/2013 06:53 AM, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We have discussed this some time ago to remove the OS_AUTH_SYSTEM from
> novaclient since this was implemented for RAX and these days RAX has
> moved to pyrax.

Rackspace should be ashamed for having spent a single second of effort
on pyrax instead of on python-openstackclient. It's actually really
insulting.

> Since last time I have looked into this it seems that there was some
> updates to it :
> 
> https://github.com/openstack/python-novaclient/blob/master/novaclient/auth_plugin.py
> 
> This made me wondering if it was needed by other people and why?
> 
> This is some preliminary works to move novaclient to use
> keystoneclient instead of implementing its own[1] client to keystone.
> If the OS_AUTH_SYSTEM feature was really needed[2] we should then
> moving it to keystoneclient.

Agree. If this is a general feature someone needs, we should move it to
keystoneclient.


> [1] weirdo with bunch of obsoletes stuff I may need to add.
> [2] and IMO this goes against a one true open cloud.
>