[keystone] Re: Meaning of role name: auditor versus reader

Colleen Murphy colleen at gazlene.net
Thu Dec 13 14:25:27 UTC 2018


Tagging keystone

On Thu, Dec 13, 2018, at 3:18 PM, cristian.calin at orange.com wrote:
> As operators, we have a need for both cases and actually a 3rd one as 
> well which should be domain scoped.
> I think the definition of reader should also include a scope (cloud-
> wide, domain specific or project specific) so that we don’t need 
> different roles.
> This might be a more fundamental change though as the scoping is static 
> today, I mean defined in the policy files/code.
> 
> Cristian Calin
> 
> From: Adam Young [mailto:ayoung at redhat.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2018 3:09 AM
> To: List, OpenStack
> Subject: Meaning of role name: auditor versus reader
> 
> We've recently come to accept reader as one of the default roles.  
> However, one thing that is not clear to me is the intention:  is this 
> designed to be the readonly set of operations that an admin can do, or 
> the read only set of operations that a member can do?
> 
> Should we really have two read-only roles, one for each case?  Perhaps 
> the admin-read-only should be called auditor, and then reader is for 
> member only operations?
> 
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