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[Jorge Williams <jorge.williams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 4, 2011, at 10:29 AM, Jay Pipes wrote:

> Would the best option be if the OpenStack API supported both auth
> mechanisms (signature, basic HTTP) and allowed the deployers to pick
> which ones were best for which clients? For instance, if OpenStack
> supported both auth mechanisms simultaneously, mobile apps could
> choose signatures whereas other clients, say a simple web dashboard,
> could choose HTTP basic auth an re-auth every N hours?


We proposed a blueprint that addressed the very issue of supporting multiple authentication schemes simultaneously.  We also proposed a default dead simple authentication component -- based on basic auth -- though we removed the details of this part at the request of the swift team.  We also supported a clear separation between auth and individual services so that teams can concentrate on their components without worrying about auth. 

We didn't go so far as proposing a default authentication system, but with the default authentication component you wouldn't need one.  Khaled implement this code to support both the default auth component  and to integrate the blueprint with swift.  The response to our blueprint, from the swift guys, was that it wasn't needed.

Now that we are focused on auth perhaps the blueprint is worth another look:

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/nova-authn
http://wiki.openstack.org/openstack-authn

-jOrGe W.

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