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Thanks. This is very helpful.

A little more questions about how to config:

1.  What should be set in [keystone_authtoken] in sahara.conf ?
      As code at https://github.com/openstack/sahara/blob/master/sahara/utils/proxy.py#L165.
      Looks like admin_user & admin_password & admin_tenant_name" must be set, and the proxy_domin must be created by the admin_user.
      But after a clean devstack installation, my sahara.conf only has:
                [keystone_authtoken]
                signing_dir = /var/cache/sahara
                cafile = /opt/stack/data/ca-bundle.pem
                auth_uri = http://192.168.6.91:5000
                project_domain_id = default
                project_name = service
                user_domain_id = default
                password = 123456
                username = sahara
                auth_url = http://192.168.6.91:35357
                auth_plugin = password

      I'm really confused, these configurations all looks very similar.

2. More other configurations must be set ?
    Such as: 
                [DEFAULT]
               use_identity_api_v3= True


Thanks.
-chen


-----Original Message-----
From: michael mccune [mailto:msm at redhat.com] 
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 8:55 PM
To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Sahara] Why Sahara request user to give username/password for accessing the job binary in Swift ?

On 06/25/2015 09:54 PM, Li, Chen wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> My puzzle here is :
> 	I create containers & objects by my own, why other users can access them ?
>
> As mentioned in your article[1], the domain " sahara_proxy" is created by user "admin" in project "openstack".
> But I'm working under user "demo" in project "demo", and other people are in other project with other users.

those are good questions Chen.

to address your puzzle, if you create containers/objects in your own project then others cannot access them without your credentials. but keep in mind that any user in your project can also view those objects.

there are 2 main reasons we created the proxy domain feature

1. increase security. by using proxy domains, sahara is not responsible for storing a user's credentials in its database, or distributing them to the nodes of the cluster.

2. convenience. when creating several job binaries and data sources you will need to enter credentials for each one. this is not necessary with the proxy domain usage.


with that being said, it may not be a feature that fits well with your usage pattern.

as to the question about "admin" project versus "demo" project, the domain is an extra layer of scoping that can be applied to tokens. it does not map 1:1 with projects as it is at a different layer than the project scoping. so, it is possible to have users from different domains accessing the same project, in this case by using trusts.

on the security issue, using proxy users also helps to create another layer of separation in the event that an intruder were able to gain the credentials stored in sahara or on the cluster nodes.

for example, if not using proxy domains, a user will store their credentials in sahara's database to access their objects. if an intruder learns this information they will have access to everything that the user does. but, if using proxy domains then the only credentials to be gained are those of the proxy user which has its permissions limited by the trust. additionally the trust will be removed when the job is complete.

i hope this clears things up =)

regards,
mike

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