On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Caitlin Bestler <
caitlin.best...@nexenta.com> wrote:

> On 10/14/2013 8:37 AM, Ben Nemec wrote:
>
>> I agree that this needs to be fixed.  It's very counterintuitive, if
>> nothing else (which is also my argument against requiring all-tenants
>> for admin users in the first place).  The only question for me is
>> whether to fix it in novaclient or in Nova itself.
>>
>
> If it is fixed in novaclient, then any unscrupulous tenant would be able
> to unfix it in novaclient themselves and gain the same information about
> other tenants that the bug is allowing.
>
> So if the intent is to protect leakage of information across tenant lines
> then the correct solution is a real lock (i.e. in Nova) rather
> than just a screen door "lock".
>
>
The novaclient fix for V2 would be simply to automatically pass all-tenants
where needed. It would not give a non admin user any extra privileges even
if they modified novaclient.

Chris
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