[Openstack] Identity API v3 - Why allow multi-tenant users?

John Postlethwait john.postlethwait at nebula.com
Wed Jul 18 05:41:48 UTC 2012


Forcing a user to remember different usernames and/or passwords for each project they are a part of, when it is possible they are part of N projects, really isn't an acceptable option in my opinion.

I believe that regardless of the engineering complexities, the end users shouldn't have to feel pain in order to make engineering the solutions and features they interact with easier. Software is for end users (in their various forms) and as such we need to take that into account when we make decisions. While no functionality is lost per se, there is a major end-user impact, and that should be reason enough to implement it…  


John Postlethwait
Nebula, Inc.
206-999-4492


On Tuesday, July 17, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Rouault, Jason (Cloud Services) wrote:

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> From: openstack-bounces+jason.rouault=hp.com at lists.launchpad.net [mailto:openstack-bounces+jason.rouault=hp.com at lists.launchpad.net (mailto:hp.com at lists.launchpad.net)] On Behalf Of Adam Young
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> On 05/29/2012 01:18 PM, Caitlin Bestler wrote:
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> > There are numerous issues with multi-tenant users. For example, if a user is associated with multiple tenants, who resets the user’s password?
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