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When running the 1.0.4-0ubuntu1 version of swauth with Swift 2.7.0-0ubuntu2~cloud0 (Swift from trusty-mitaka cloud archive) the server errors out with an error 500 when creating accounts. This prevents users from being able to create or manage accounts using swauth against Mitaka. root@juju-swauth-machine-1:~# swauth-add-user -A http://127.0.0.1:8080/auth/ -K swauthkey -a test tester testing Account creation failed: 500 Server Error User creation failed: 500 Server Error The upstream Swift release *finally* removed a deprecated timeout parameter for their custom memcache client 'set' function call in https://review.openstack.org/#/c/257065/ in order to maintain api compatible with the official python-memcache client. The minimal fix for this bug is to backport commit c44b5b6 [1], which adds a test to determine if the version of swift has the time option or not. This commit has been removed in the latest version of swauth because swift/swauth no longer support clients < Juno, which would mean they all have the time parameter rather than the timeout parameter. The removal of that code caused this bug to manifest itself. [1] https://github.com/openstack/swauth/commit/c44b5b64489c1721cf05992b14e53b0c8a4e325e [Test Case] 1. Deploy swift-proxy and swift storage from the trusty-liberty Ubuntu Cloud Archive. 2. Deploy the swauth middleware (apt-get install swauth). 3. Configure swauth following the instructions at http://swauth.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ 4. Create test user: swauth-add-user -A http[s]://<host>:<port>/auth/ -K swauthkey -a test tester testing 5. Ensure it works: swift -A http[s]://<host>:<port>/auth/v1.0 -U test:tester -K testing stat -v [Regression Potential] The cherry-pick of the fix should be fairly safe as the code dates to April 2013. That was, however, on a different version of the swauth code. An error in this code path would prevent servers from being able to use Swift itself as a wsgi middleware auth plugin. [Other Info] Upstream version 1.1.0 was recently released (after having been defunct since version 1.0.8 for 3 years) with the Mitaka version of OpenStack under the big tent model. The 1.1.0 version was recently synced from debian unstable into yakkety. There's a fair number of changes between 1.0.4 and 1.1.0 that I think warrants more testing and verification against the trusty-mitaka cloud-archive. ** Affects: swauth (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1582475 Title: Managing access gets HTTP 500 due to using deprecated option timeout To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/swauth/+bug/1582475/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
