=============== The Auth System =============== -------- TempAuth -------- The auth system for Swift is loosely based on the auth system from the existing Rackspace architecture -- actually from a few existing auth systems -- and is therefore a bit disjointed. The distilled points about it are: * The authentication/authorization part can be an external system or a subsystem run within Swift as WSGI middleware * The user of Swift passes in an auth token with each request * Swift validates each token with the external auth system or auth subsystem and caches the result * The token does not change from request to request, but does expire The token can be passed into Swift using the X-Auth-Token or the X-Storage-Token header. Both have the same format: just a simple string representing the token. Some auth systems use UUID tokens, some an MD5 hash of something unique, some use "something else" but the salient point is that the token is a string which can be sent as-is back to the auth system for validation. Swift will make calls to the auth system, giving the auth token to be validated. For a valid token, the auth system responds with an overall expiration in seconds from now. Swift will cache the token up to the expiration time. The included TempAuth also has the concept of admin and non-admin users within an account. Admin users can do anything within the account. Non-admin users can only perform operations per container based on the container's X-Container-Read and X-Container-Write ACLs. For more information on ACLs, see :mod:`swift.common.middleware.acl`. Additionally, if the auth system sets the request environ's swift_owner key to True, the proxy will return additional header information in some requests, such as the X-Container-Sync-Key for a container GET or HEAD. The user starts a session by sending a ReST request to the auth system to receive the auth token and a URL to the Swift system. ------------- Keystone Auth ------------- Swift is able to authenticate against OpenStack keystone via the :mod:`swift.common.middleware.keystoneauth` middleware. In order to use the ``keystoneauth`` middleware the ``authtoken`` middleware from keystone will need to be configured. The ``authtoken`` middleware performs the authentication token validation and retrieves actual user authentication information. It can be found in the Keystone distribution. The ``keystoneauth`` middleware performs authorization and mapping the ``keystone`` roles to Swift's ACLs. Configuring Swift to use Keystone ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Configuring Swift to use Keystone is relatively straight forward. The first step is to ensure that you have the auth_token middleware installed, distributed with keystone it can either be dropped in your python path or installed via the keystone package. You need at first make sure you have a service endpoint of type ``object-store`` in keystone pointing to your Swift proxy. For example having this in your ``/etc/keystone/default_catalog.templates`` :: catalog.RegionOne.object_store.name = Swift Service catalog.RegionOne.object_store.publicURL = http://swiftproxy:8080/v1/AUTH_$(tenant_id)s catalog.RegionOne.object_store.adminURL = http://swiftproxy:8080/ catalog.RegionOne.object_store.internalURL = http://swiftproxy:8080/v1/AUTH_$(tenant_id)s On your Swift Proxy server you will want to adjust your main pipeline and add auth_token and keystoneauth in your ``/etc/swift/proxy-server.conf`` like this :: [pipeline:main] pipeline = [....] authtoken keystoneauth proxy-logging proxy-server add the configuration for the authtoken middleware:: [filter:authtoken] paste.filter_factory = keystone.middleware.auth_token:filter_factory auth_host = keystonehost auth_port = 35357 auth_protocol = http auth_uri = http://keystonehost:5000/ admin_tenant_name = service admin_user = swift admin_password = password The actual values for these variables will need to be set depending on your situation. For more information, please refer to the Keystone documentation on the ``auth_token`` middleware, but in short: * Those variables beginning with ``auth_`` point to the Keystone Admin service. This information is used by the middleware to actually query Keystone about the validity of the authentication tokens. * The admin auth credentials (``admin_user``, ``admin_tenant_name``, ``admin_password``) will be used to retrieve an admin token. That token will be used to authorize user tokens behind the scenes. .. note:: If support is required for unvalidated users (as with anonymous access) or for tempurl/formpost middleware, authtoken will need to be configured with delay_auth_decision set to 1. and you can finally add the keystoneauth configuration:: [filter:keystoneauth] use = egg:swift#keystoneauth operator_roles = admin, swiftoperator By default the only users able to give ACL or to Create other containers are the ones who has the Keystone role specified in the ``operator_roles`` setting. This user who have one of those role will be able to give ACLs to other users on containers, see the documentation on ACL here :mod:`swift.common.middleware.acl`. -------------- Extending Auth -------------- TempAuth is written as wsgi middleware, so implementing your own auth is as easy as writing new wsgi middleware, and plugging it in to the proxy server. The KeyStone project and the Swauth project are examples of additional auth services. Also, see :doc:`development_auth`.