No, we didn’t do anything with custom drivers. We implemented the pipeline 
solution referred to in this document:

http://docs.openstack.org/developer/keystone/external-auth.html

Jasper

On 02 May 2014, at 15:00, Michael Hearn <mrhe...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Jasper
> Are you alluding to the hybrid drivers as discussed & avail via 
> http://www.mattfischer.com/blog/?tag=openstack-2
> 
> ~Mike.
> 
> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 11:17 PM, Lillie Ross-CDSR11 
> <ross.lil...@motorolasolutions.com> wrote:
> I’ve been playing with using LDAP authentication (identity) and SQL 
> authorization (assignment) within Keystone in the current devstack release 
> running in a single VM.
> 
> The problem with this setup, as I understand it, is the need to have LDAP 
> entries for each service user (i.e. nova, glance, etc.).  In our environment, 
> this isn’t possible as our corporate LDAP directory is solely for employee 
> records.  While I could work around this issue by running each service under 
> a known LDAP employee record - this seems rather a kludge to me.
> 
> My question is, and admittedly I’m not well versed in directory federation, 
> is this an issue that could be resolved once directory federation is stable 
> in the next Openstack release? Where, for instance, all of the openstack 
> service accounts could remain in a separate directory service controlled 
> solely by the cloud owner/admin, while user’s could then be authenticated via 
> the corporate employee LDAP database?
> 
> We’d love to use LDAP to authenticate cloud user’s, but with the need to also 
> authenticate openstack services against the same LDAP backend makes the use 
> of LDAP unviable in our environment.
> 
> This has probably been discussed previously, but any insight would be 
> helpful.  
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> Ross
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> Ross Lillie
> Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
> Motorola Solutions, Inc.
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