Re: Get the user metadata via RGW Admin OPS API of the signer of the request

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On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 5:18 PM, Volker Theile <vtheile@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've enhanced the RGW Admin OPS API to get the metadata of the user
> without using the URL /admin/metadata/user?key=<username>, instead the
> URL /admin/metadata/user?myself will return the metadata of the user
> that is used to sign the request.
>
> You're asking what this is good for?
>
> In the Dashboard it is necessary to check if a RGW user that is going to
> be deleted is not the user account that is used to access the RGW Admin
> OPS API (see feature https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/24335). The problem
> is that the Dashboard only knows about the access/secret key of the
> administration account. With the above feature it is easy to retrieve
> the user name of the administration account by requesting the metadata
> via /admin/metadata/user?myself.

That's great, I just had the need for this api yesterday.

>
> You can find the already working implementation at
> https://github.com/votdev/ceph/commit/581374fb22734ba3fd904407210add6351df59cd.
>
> Is this a good approach or can this be done better? Feel free to comment
> this email.
>

Looks good.

Yehuda

>
> Volker
>
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