Hello Thierry, Can we download Folsom branch codebase for understanding Quantum and other changes in Folsom release?
Please give us your comments,experience and known issues. Thanks in advance. -balaji On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Thierry Carrez <thie...@openstack.org>wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Quantum currently contains bin/quantum-rootwrap, a copy of nova-rootwrap > supposed to control its privilege escalation to run commands as root. > > However quantum-rootwrap is currently non-functional, missing a lot of > filter definitions that are necessary for it to work correctly. Quantum > is generally run with root_helper=sudo and a wildcard sudoers file. That > means Quantum is not ready to deprecate in Folsom (and remove in > Grizzly) its ability to run with root_helper=sudo, like Nova and Cinder do. > > I discussed this with Dan, and it appears that the sanest approach would > be to remove quantum-rootwrap from Quantum and only support > root_helper=sudo (the only option that works). I suspect nobody is > actually using quantum-rootwrap right now anyway, given how broken it > seems to be. For the first official release of Quantum as an OpenStack > core project, I would prefer not to ship half-working options :) > > Quantum would then wait for rootwrap to move to openstack-common (should > be done in Grizzly) to reconsider using it. > > Let me know if any of you see issues with that approach. > (posted to the general list to get the widest feedback). > > -- > Thierry Carrez (ttx) > Release Manager, OpenStack > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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