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[Ravi Chunduru <ravivsn@xxxxxxxxx>]

AFAIK, that is right we need admin privileges to check validity.
Other thing which is surprising, if a service creates a token.. it requires
admin privileges to delete that token. I would not expect all services to
be aware of admin credentials.


Thanks,
-Ravi.

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Janus Godard <jgvant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm new to OpenStack. I'm looking at deploying two 3rd party services
> along OpenStack and would like to use Keystone for they authentication
> mechanism. Service A will authenticate and get a token from keystone and
> use it for REST requests to service B. Those two services don't use WSGI,
> just the REST API. Is there a way for service B to validate the token with
> keystone without having an admin role or the admin token?
>
> Sorry for the noob question. The only thing I found in the doc is the GET
> method that requires admin permissions:
>
> http://docs.openstack.org/api/openstack-identity-service/2.0/content/GET_validateToken_v2.0_tokens__tokenId__Token_Operations.html
> And from what I read in the compute admin docs the OpenStack services seem
> to rely on admin credentials or token.
>
> Regards,
>
> Janus
>
>
>
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Ravi