Where is the admin's directory?

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Eoghan,

Further to my late posting.

I have stopped there and rebooted the PC.  Please advise where can I find admin's directory?  OR I have to start from the begining again?  Thank
 

B.R.
SL


----- Original Message -----
> From: Eoghan Glynn <eglynn at redhat.com>
> To: Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com>; Fedora Cloud SIG <cloud at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Cc: 
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 4:43 PM
> Subject: Re: Where is the admin's directory?
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>  I'm following;
>> 
>>  Red Hat Essex Preview
>>  Lab Guide
>>  Red Hat Summit - 2012 Edition
>>  http://fedorapeople.org/~russellb/openstack-lab-rhsummit-2012/
>> 
>>  to set up OpenStack, Essex, on Fedora 17
>> 
>>  I'm stuck here:
>>  Now that an admin user has been created, that account can be used to
>>  administer keystone. To make it easy to set the admin user's
>>  credentials in the proper environment variables, create a
>>  keystonerc_admin file with the following contents ....
>>  http://fedorapeople.org/~russellb/openstack-lab-rhsummit-2012/ch02s02.html
>> 
>>  Where shall I create the file keystonerc_admin?  Where is the admin's
>>  directory?
> 
> You can put it anywhere you like, note that the keystone admin user is not
> necessarily tied to an individual system user (in which case the RC file
> would naturally live in their home directory). Instead this is an openstack
> identity that a system user assumes by sourcing the keystonerc_admin file.
> It may be that a single system user sometimes adopts an admin role, and
> other times uses openstack as a non-admin user. Or that a group of system
> users share the role of openstack admin. Or whatever. Just put the file
> somewhere that's only accessible to the system users that are allowed to
> be admins.
> 
> Note that there is an unrealistic aspect to this tutorial ... in practice
> you may be more leary about leaving passwords in text files, in which
> case the password can be re-typed for each individual command line or the
> OS_PASSWORD env var set manually per-session. For the tutorial, its just
> more convenient to dump it into a file.
> 
> Cheers,
> Eoghan
>