From a471a63a966bd7bc7ff286de7edcfb909a6fd3e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olena Logvinova Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 17:56:23 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Removes a Keyring support section from End User Guide As keyring encryption support was removed from openstackclient code, the End User Guide was updated as well by removing Keyring support section from appropriate chapter in the user guide. Change-Id: I9531b460be9a4dd2d6c1aedb33324fd9140a4538 Closes-Bug: #1419990 --- doc/common/section_cli_openrc.xml | 11 +++++++- .../section_keystone-keyring-support.xml | 28 ------------------- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 doc/common/section_keystone-keyring-support.xml diff --git a/doc/common/section_cli_openrc.xml b/doc/common/section_cli_openrc.xml index a0dae9b8bb..3dba371d34 100644 --- a/doc/common/section_cli_openrc.xml +++ b/doc/common/section_cli_openrc.xml @@ -136,6 +136,15 @@ export OS_CACERT=/path/to/cacertFile follows: $ keystone --os-password PASSWORD service-list Where PASSWORD is your password. + A user specifies their username and password credentials to interact + with OpenStack, using any client command. These credentials can be specified + using various mechanisms, namely, the environment variable or command-line argument. + It is not safe to specify the password using either of these methods. + For example, when you specify your password using the command-line client + with the --os-password argument, anyone with access + to your computer can view it in plain text with the ps + field. + To avoid storing the password in plain text, you can prompt for the + OpenStack password interactively. - diff --git a/doc/common/section_keystone-keyring-support.xml b/doc/common/section_keystone-keyring-support.xml deleted file mode 100644 index dcdfb6f989..0000000000 --- a/doc/common/section_keystone-keyring-support.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,28 +0,0 @@ - -
- Keyring support - Keyring is a password management system available in OpenStack. - You can install it using the following command: - $ pip install keyring - - Keyring is used only if --os-use-keyring - is specified or if the environment variable - is defined. - - A user specifies their username and password credentials to interact - with OpenStack, using any client command. These credentials can be specified - using various mechanisms, namely, the environment variable, or command line argument. - It is not safe to specify the password using either of these methods. - For example, when you specify your password using the command-line client - with the --os-password argument, anyone with access - to your computer can view it in plain text with the ps - field. - To avoid storing the password in plain text, you can prompt for the - OpenStack password interactively. Then, the keyring can store the password - and the user can safely retrieve it from their keyring. The encrypted password - is stored in the ~/.openstack-keyring.cfg file. -