[Openstack] Question about Keystone RBAC

Shake Chen shake.chen at gmail.com
Thu Oct 4 00:29:46 UTC 2012


Hi

I also have question about RBAC.

when we can setting the roles permission in Horizon?


On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:56 AM, Dolph Mathews
<dolph.mathews at rackspace.com>wrote:

>  (replying on list)
>
>  RBAC policy enforce is already implemented on consuming services and
> default policies are provided by policy.json files (e.g.
> https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/etc/nova/policy.json ).
>
>  We haven't yet implemented a method for services to consume policy blobs
> from Identity API v3, /v3/policies (which itself is still in development),
> rather than loading policy.json files.
>
>  For an example of scoping RBAC per project, see the admin_or_owner rule
> in nova's policy.json above.
>
>  As for the efficiency of policy storage, I'm not clear on what your
> concerns are?
>
>  -Dolph
>   ------------------------------
> *From:* MS. Faraji [ms.faraji at utoronto.ca]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 03, 2012 1:34 PM
> *To:* Dolph Mathews
> *Subject:* Question about Keystone RBAC
>
>   Hi,
>
> I sent an email to inquire about RBAC implementation in Keystone before,
> and you generously shared your information. However, there are a couple of
> questions that I have in mind.
> I searched the Internet and documents; however, I did not find useful
> information about them. I hope you can help me to find it out.
>
> 1) Consider the enforce API is implemented, which side should use it?
> Service or Keystone itself. If Keystone uses this function, how does it
> know about the action that a user
> wants to perform on a resource. If service call it as an API, what is the
> endpoint? How services use authorization in Keystone?
>
> 2) Can roles and associated actions be defined in the scope of project or
> domain? For example demo can do release in project 1 but not in project 2.
>
> 3) Is the plain storage of capabilities ( no data structure) efficient? In
> terms of required storage space and later lookups.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help and assistance,
> I look forward to your response.
>
>
> Moh,
>
>
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Shake Chen
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