cloud and eucalyptus authentication experiment

Question

In general we can enter to eucalyptus with some credentials.but i want to have my own authentication policy of implementing.Here i would like to use key distribution center for providing the keys for confidentiality so that user can have security features.. can anybody help me? is it possible?

Answer 1

The current version of Eucalyptus (2) do not have such a capabilities. With Eucalyptus 3 a feature is introduced to allow integration with LDAP or AD. Is this enough for your purposes?

Answer 2

You can try out the eucalyptus development branch it is having the latest code. It is available here:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~eucalyptus-maintainers/eucalyptus/eucalyptus-devel/files

In order to set it up on your system Andy's blog post can be a good reference:

http://agrimmsreality.blogspot.in/2012/01/building-eucalyptus-3-devel.html http://agrimmsreality.blogspot.in/2012/01/configuring-eucalyptus-3-devel.html

Hope this helps!