[Openstack-security] keystone tokens

Bhandaru, Malini K malini.k.bhandaru at intel.com
Fri May 10 16:59:41 UTC 2013


Adding keystone gurus  ayoung and dolphm to see if they can case some light.

We can have multiple valid tokens in the system for a user, valid being the operative word.
They are equal citizens with respect to access rights.

Regards
Malini

-----Original Message-----
From: Clark, Robert Graham [mailto:robert.clark at hp.com] 
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 4:22 AM
To: Bhandaru, Malini K; openstack-security at lists.openstack.org
Subject: Re: [Openstack-security] keystone tokens

Does creating a new token on request invalidate the already issued (Still
valid) tokens?

On 10/05/2013 00:44, "Bhandaru, Malini K" <malini.k.bhandaru at intel.com>
wrote:

>Greetings!!
>
>Does anyone know why keystone design supports the creation of a fresh 
>token for each time a user logs-in/requests a token Even if in the 
>system there are un-expired tokens for the said user?
>Design justification?
>Apart from buggy code creating an explosion of tokens, this is a route 
>for denial of service.
>Related bugs .. 
>
>https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1168399
>https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1178063
>
>Regards
>Malini
>
>
>
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