One benefit is the user does not need to have multiple sets of credentials to interact with multiple projects. Jason From: openstack-bounces+jason.rouault=hp.com at lists.launchpad.net [mailto:openstack-bounces+jason.rouault=hp.com at lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Adam Young Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 11:55 AM To: openstack at lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Openstack] Identity API v3 - Why allow multi-tenant users? On 05/29/2012 01:18 PM, Caitlin Bestler wrote: One of the major complication I see in the API is that users can be associated with multiple tenants. What is the benefit of this? What functionality would be lost if a human user merely had to use a different account with each tenant? There are numerous issues with multi-tenant users. For example, if a user is associated with multiple tenants, who resets the user's password? _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack at lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp Did you ever get an answer? This has been discussed in depth. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20120717/715347bb/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 4854 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20120717/715347bb/attachment.bin>