[Swift-devel] auth.defaults

[Mihael Hategan]

On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 17:08 -0400, David Kelly wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov>
> wrote:
>  
>         I don't think I understand what you mean by "per-host
>         auth.defaults".
> 
> What I mean by that is, each configuration generated by swiftconfig
> could have it's own unique auth.defaults file like it has it's own
> sites.xml. Then you could run something like "swift
> -auth.file /mypath/auth.defaults" rather than requiring it to be
> stored in ~/.ssh.

It's possible, but I don't think it's worth the effort. That file, like
authorized_keys or known_hosts is not meant to contain frequently
changing information, since passwords and usernanames are not generally
a moving target (nor are host keys).