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[Ziad Sawalha <ziad.sawalha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Xuyun,

Creating a user with a password is all you need to authenticate and get a token. The 'keystone-manage credentials' command is to add any additional credentials like EC2 (AWS) credentials or API keys.

I'm not an expert on the swift command, but I believe it might work if you pass the password as your API key…

Regards,

Ziad

From: Xuyun Zhang <xyzhanggz@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:xyzhanggz@xxxxxxxxx>>
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:30:13 +1100
To: <openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
Subject: [Openstack] About keystone concepts: the difference between the key of a credential and the password of a user

I was really confused by the concepts in keystone (I'm a beginner to OpenStack). When we create a user, we should set the username and password for this user. According the command "keystone-manage credentials add [username] [type] [key] [password]([tenant_name])", we still need a key and a password for a credential. But they are different from the username and password we created for a user.

When we use swift command "swift -A <url> -U <user> -K <key> operation" to connect the swift proxy, the <user> and <key> appear to be the username and password created for a user.

So, could anyone please help me to clear these concepts and the relationships among them?  I'v got stuck to run swift and keystone for a while.

Thanks

Regards,
Sean
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