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| author | Bhuvan Arumugam <bhuvan@apache.org> | 2012-08-22 15:57:59 -0700 |
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| committer | Bhuvan Arumugam <bhuvan@apache.org> | 2012-08-22 15:57:59 -0700 |
| commit | 8010e773accce2d24c04659c88ac0c040c9a1932 (patch) | |
| tree | aaf99cbcdb640ef7455b0fa79509557a54e3bd8e | |
| parent | a5aa06c92f8624417fced545fd4799058dd22fdb (diff) | |
| download | python-openstackclient-8010e773accce2d24c04659c88ac0c040c9a1932.tar.gz | |
Document the use of keyring.
* README.rst
Document the option --os-use-keyring, and environment variable
OS_USE_KEYRING, to enable keyring.
Change-Id: I54ceb2d2692fecca328da16f6ed14db8d09a6eb7
| -rw-r--r-- | README.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ The 'password flow' variation is most commonly used:: export OS_TENANT_NAME=<tenant-name> export OS_USERNAME=<user-name> export OS_PASSWORD=<password> # (optional) + export OS_USE_KEYRING=true # (optional) The corresponding command-line options look very similar:: @@ -74,9 +75,12 @@ The corresponding command-line options look very similar:: --os-tenant-name <tenant-name> --os-username <user-name> [--os-password <password>] + [--os-use-keyring] If a password is not provided above (in plaintext), you will be interactively -prompted to provide one securely. +prompted to provide one securely. If keyring is enabled, the password entered +in the prompt is stored in keyring. From next time, the password is read from +keyring, if it is not provided above (in plaintext). The token flow variation for authentication uses an already-aquired token and a URL pointing directly to the service API that presumably was acquired |
