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keystoneauth
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This package contains tools for authenticating to an OpenStack-based cloud.
These tools include:

* Authentication plugins (password, token, and federation based)
* Discovery mechanisms to determine API version support
* A session that is used to maintain client settings across requests (based on
  the requests Python library)

Further information:

* Free software: Apache license
* Documentation: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/keystoneauth
* Source: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/keystoneauth
* Bugs: http://bugs.launchpad.net/keystoneauth