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Re: Password Alias is different than in v2 ?

From: Anissa Lam <anissa.lam_at_oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 08:06:09 -0700

Thanks for clarifying this promptly.

Anissa.

On 11/3/10 12:26 AM, Kumar.Jayanti wrote:
> On 03/11/10 12:30 PM, Bill Shannon wrote:
>> I don't understand why password aliases would not be per-domain.
>>
>> We recently reviewed the options for commands, maybe we missed this one?
> It is a mistake. I will remove the --target option.
>
> regards,
> kumar
>>
>>
>> Anissa Lam wrote on 11/02/2010 05:25 PM:
>>>
>>> In order to have better user experience on creating/editing Nodes in
>>> GUI, Joe
>>> requested me to allow user to specify password alias for the SSH
>>> Authentication,
>>> besides just allowing KeyFile.
>>> So I looked in Password Aliasing in 3.1, and notice a significant
>>> difference
>>> when compared to v2.
>>>
>>> In 2.1, it seems that password alias is per domain, there is no
>>> --target option.
>>> Usage: create-password-alias [--terse=false] [--echo=false]
>>> [--interactive=true]
>>> [--host localhost] [--port 4848|4849] [--secure | -s] [--user
>>> admin_user]
>>> [--passwordfile file_name] aliasname
>>>
>>> In 3.1, password alias takes in a target, and needs to be
>>> cluster/standalone
>>> instance/server
>>> Usage: asadmin [asadmin-utility-options] create-password-alias
>>> [--target <target(default:server)>] [-?|--help[=<help(default:false)>]]
>>> aliasname
>>> and it will not take "domain" as target.
>>>
>>> I want to know if this is by design or just an overlook. If it is
>>> by-design,
>>> then GUI will not be able to list out the password aliases for user
>>> to select
>>> when creating Node for SSH authentication, as Node creation is per
>>> domain.
>>>
>>> I also see a couple bugs when trying to create/list password alias.
>>> I will file
>>> issues on that.
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> Anissa.
>>>
>>>
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