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[Anne Gentle <anne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Joe -
The place I've found this credential add is in the keystone data script in
devstack. See:

https://github.com/cloudbuilders/devstack/blob/master/files/keystone_data.sh

lines 42 and 43.

Anne
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On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Joseph Heck <heckj@xxxxxx> wrote:

> On Oct 27, 2011, at 9:19 AM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote:
> > On Oct 25, 2011, at 12:05 PM, Joseph Heck wrote:
> >> Q: What's the keystone-manage command for "credential add" do? There's
> also no corresponding delete or disable - is this password update for the
> passwords that are set on "keystone-manage user add"? If not, how are those
> passwords updated?
> >>
> >> Q: What are "type" and "key" as related to "credential add" command, and
> what are they intended to do?
> >
> > We use the credential add command to store ec2 credentials.  The idea
> behind credentials could be that a user would have a number of different
> credentials of different types.  Oauth keys, ec2 secret and access, etc.  I
> hacked the ability to add the ec2 credentials in because we needed it to
> make the ec2 api work in nova.  The idea was that more robust support would
> be added through admin api extensions later.
>
> Thanks Vish! Any quick pointers to nova code (or where to find them) so I
> can see how you're using it today? I want to slap this into the docs (which
> are anemic in this area at the moment, since I didn't grok it)
>
> -joe
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