Comment 4 for bug 732907

This isn't strictly true. The ec2 credentails are an access and secret key, which is a bit different from a username and password. I don't think we can think of them as completely interchangable. In many auth systems, you use a username and password to generate a token which has a key and a secret.

Vish

On Mar 10, 2011, at 2:19 PM, justinsb wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> The OpenStack and EC2 APIs don't use the same username & password.
>
> This is obviously untenable: it leads to a world where an end user would
> need to know which API their front-end application was using behind the
> scenes.
>
> ** Affects: nova
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/732907
>
> Title:
> OpenStack and EC2 APIs use different usernames and passwords
>
> Status in OpenStack Compute (Nova):
> New
>
> Bug description:
> The OpenStack and EC2 APIs don't use the same username & password.
>
> This is obviously untenable: it leads to a world where an end user
> would need to know which API their front-end application was using
> behind the scenes.