[Swift-devel] auth.defaults

[David Kelly]

Hello all,

During today's conference call we were discussing auth.defaults in relation
to swiftconfig, but it expanded into a more general discussion about how
swift uses auth.defaults. I was asked to send an email to the list to
discuss it further.

One of the concerns mentioned was security. Is there a way to transition
from having passwords stored in plaintext to another method, perhaps an
agent-based authentication?

Another thing that would be nice, for swiftconfig/swiftrun, would be to have
a per-host auth.defaults outside of .ssh. Then you could specify the
auth.defaults file to use, as you currently can with sites and tc. Currently
this might not be a good idea due to security concerns, but if we could
eliminate the passwords this might be possible?

David
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