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On Apr 1, 2011, at 1:35 AM, shashidhar v wrote:

> In the above script,  the third user is tester3 (non admin) which is not allowed to create containers ? Then what's the role of non-admin users created under swift , what operations they can perform ?
> 
> Swift supports ACL or not and  the containers/objects created by a admin user can be shared with non-admin user for atleast downloading the objects ?

Non-admin users can only perform operations per container based on the container’s X-Container-Read and X-Container-Write ACLs. With an admin account you could create a container for that non-admin user and set X-Container-Read: test:tester3 and X-Container-Write: test:tester3.

These may explain more:

http://swift.openstack.org/overview_auth.html
http://swift.openstack.org/misc.html#module-swift.common.middleware.acl