** Description changed:

  [Impact]
  
  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                                             
                                            
+ 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
+      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
- 
+      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.
+ against the trusty-mitaka cloud-archive. However, the minimally invasive
+ patch will enable this to work across versions providing sooner relief
+ to any users encountering this issue.

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Title:
  Managing access gets HTTP 500 due to using deprecated option timeout

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