I'm curious about the interactions from the user side with OAuth (cmdline) Unless there's work underway on this already I wouldn't mind throwing a BP/spec together on how this might work (if possible).
Any objections? -S ________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Vishvananda Ishaya [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 2:19 PM To: Khaled Hussein Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Openstack] Federated Identity Management (bursting and zones) Agreed, Pluggable option 2 with a default OAuth implementation seems like the best strategy. Vish On Mar 28, 2011, at 9:42 AM, Khaled Hussein wrote: I was thinking of having OAuth implementation for authorization/delegation in an external identity management solution, option 2 :). The IdM solution can be extensible to support other Identity Federation protocols as well such as SAML. Khaled On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Jay Pipes <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Sandy Walsh <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Currently, we link Nova deployments (aka Zones) with a single admin account. > All operations done in the child zone are done with this admin account. > Obviously this needs to change. A simple operation such as "get_all_servers" > should only return the servers that User X owns. In the current > implementation, all the servers the admin account can see will be returned. > We need some form of federated identity management. User accounts must be > shared between homogeneous and heterogeneous deployments. ie. all private, > all public or public/private (aka Hybrid) via Bursting. > There are some possibilities here: > 1. Replicate User accounts across zones. A user account would map to N child > zone accounts ... one for each child zone. These "placeholder" accounts are > hidden from the user and synchronized when the parent changes. > 2. Rely on an external/shared user management service. Let the Auth/RBAC > system sort out visibility, control, etc. This system would need to be > publicly available to both groups in the hybrid scenario. > 3. Continue with the admin account and filter access control/visibility in > the parent zone. > ... and I'm sure there are others. 4. Use OAuth? -jay _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack<https://launchpad.net/%7Eopenstack> Post to : [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack<https://launchpad.net/%7Eopenstack> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message (including any attached or embedded documents) is intended for the exclusive and confidential use of the individual or entity to which this message is addressed, and unless otherwise expressly indicated, is confidential and privileged information of Rackspace. Any dissemination, distribution or copying of the enclosed material is prohibited. If you receive this transmission in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail at [email protected], and delete the original message. Your cooperation is appreciated.
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