[Discuss] OCCI OpenNebula user authentication 401 failure

Borja Sotomayor borja at cs.uchicago.edu
Thu Dec 15 05:53:31 PST 2011


Hi,

Could you send this question to the user mailing list? 
(users at lists.opennebula.org) The discuss mailing list is meant for 
non-technical questions.

Cheers!
--Borja

On 12/15/2011 07:44 AM, Stefano Ghio wrote:
> Cheers,
>
> I have some questions about OCCI authentication with ONE.
>
> I set up ONE and the OCCI server fine.
>
> I start them with "./onestart.sh" and "occi-server start".
> I have 2 users: oneadmin:oneadmin and test:test. The second one was
> created with "oneuser create test test".
>
> The OCCI server is configured in /etc/one/occi-server.conf with:
>
>   * :auth: basic
>   * :server: localhost
>   * :port: 4567
>
> The machine is reachable at IP 192.168.23.44
>
> If I send a cURL:
>
> curl http://test:test@192.168.23.44:4567/-/
>
> I always get a 401 Authentication Failure. Using oneadmin:oneadmin does
> not change anything.
>
> I can easily access ONE configuration through the Sunstone interface
> with oneadmin:oneadmin though it does not use OCCI so I don't think it's
> related to my problem.
>
> I tried with curl --basic --user test:test http://etc.. and curl -X GET
> etc.. but no luck.
>
>   * How do I send a proper request to the OCCI server with cURL?
>   * As last resort, how can I disable authentication? Documentation [1]
>     only says either "basic" or "x509". I tried "none" and "false" but
>     it didn't work, I got a 500 Internal server error since ":auth:" was
>     not specified properly
>
> I'm just using cURL to test if it's working properly, as I will later
> try to do the same from a Java client. Which leads me to the next
> question: where do I find a Java client which supports user
> authentication? I tried occi4java[2] which looks pretty complete but
> nowhere I found the possibility to pass the "user:pass" parameter.
>
> Thank you,
>
> have a nice day
>
> [1] http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel3.0:occicg#authorization_methods
> [2] https://github.com/occi4java/occi4java
> --
> Dr. Stefano Ghio - ENG Engineering Italy
>
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Borja Sotomayor

  Researcher, Computation Institute
  Lecturer, Department of Computer Science
  University of Chicago
  http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~borja/

  Community Manager, OpenNebula project
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