Hi Travis, Sorry for the confusion! There is a branch in git (wip-auth) that cleans up the rbd map code to be consistent with the rest of the system, so that you can use keyrings or explicit keys or keyfiles. It should get merged for 0.50. sage On Mon, 9 Jul 2012, Travis Rhoden wrote: > Hey folks, > > I had a bit of unexpected trouble today using the "rbd map" command to > map an RBD to a kernel object. I had previously been using the "echo > ... > /sys/bus/rbd..." method of manipulating RBDs. > > I was looking at the instructions here: > http://ceph.com/docs/master/rbd/rbd-ko/ > > When I tried to use the given syntax, "sudo rbd map {image-name} > --pool {pool-name} --name {client-name} --secret {client-secret}", I > found the following: > > 1. {client-secret} is really supposed to be a file, not the actual > secret. An strace on the command shows an attempt to open a file with > the secret as its name > 2. If I give a keyring file as the client-secret, the command does not > parse out the key for the given client-name. In other words, I gave > the name as "client.admin", then gave it the keyring file which > contained merely > > [client.admin] > key = AQB67+BPGNX0NhAA9iK7Epcj72Jck1wOAQBetA== > > But the command wouldn't parse out the key. > > 3. I had to create a new file, containing only the text of the key, > and pass that to the command instead. Then everything is happy. > > > I"m happy to update the docs to make this process clear. But I wonder > if there might be any plans to modify the command behavior to accept a > keyring file and pull out the key belonging to specified client name. > Either way, I can update the docs to make it clear that you are > specifying a file, not the key string itself. > > Thanks, > > - Travis > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
