April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
8h 37m
English
We are already aware that OpenStack components use the Keystone service for performing authentication. The Swift service can be configured to use either one of the following for authentication:
To determine which authentication is configured, you can check the configuration file, /etc/swift/proxy-server.conf. This file should have a section with the following title. The authentication configuration is done under this section:
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It is not recommended to use TempAuth in a production system. However, TempAuth is fully functional and can be used as a model to develop your own auth system. It has the concept of admin and non-admin users within an account. Admin are super users with full access ...