[Openstack] [Swift] Auth problem

Kun Huang Academicgareth at gmail.com
Sun Jan 13 17:05:53 UTC 2013


Thanks, Adrian! I have no questions any more.


On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Adrian Smith <adrian at 17od.com> wrote:

> Hi Kun,
>
> > I got "user_<login1>_<login2> = <password> <privileges>" from
> >
> http://www.stephenbroeker.com/2012/03/28/openstack-swift-tempauth-module/,
> > but what's different from login1 and login2?
>
> Perhaps the "login1", "login2" labels is what's causing your
> confusion. The format of the proxy config entries for tempauth is
> actually,
>
>   user_<account>_<username> = <password> <privileges>
>
> In the SAIO examples we see, "user_test_tester = testing .admin". In
> this case the account name is "test", username "tester" and password
> "testing". This user is also an administrator for the account.
>
> For tempauth there's no further action required to define an account.
>
> > Another question is what is purpose for writing data (those four
> accounts)
> > in conf files? If I create a new account and restart relevant service,
> what
> > will happen on that data about new account?
>
> Adding another account to the config file and/or restarting the
> services has no effect on data belonging to existing accounts.
>
> > I have read
> http://www.stephenbroeker.com/2012/03/14/swift-rest-api-example/
> > and
> >
> http://docs.openstack.org/api/openstack-object-storage/1.0/content/storage-account-services.html
> .
> > To create a new account is curling "PUT /v1/<account> HTTP/1.1". Is there
> > any other way to create a new account, like using swift and swift-*
> command?
> >
> > Does I miss some basic documentation or wiki?
>
> When using tempauth this command is unnecessary. An account is created
> by simply adding it to the proxy config file as described above.
>
> Adrian
>
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