Where is the admin's directory?

[Adam Young]

Those instructions assume you are working as a non-priveledge user on a 
system.   So,  if you are logged in as sliu,  you should put the 
keystonerc_* files in /home/sliu
If you ran as root, which some people do, you probably put them in /root




On 08/13/2012 07:01 AM, Stephen Liu wrote:
> 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
>>
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