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CLOUDSTACK-2516: Adding upgrade steps to deal with authenticator changes


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Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cloudstack/commit/e720e8a1
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Branch: refs/heads/master
Commit: e720e8a1a62722c2c032aafe00848079fbd92a03
Parents: 5b80af0
Author: Chip Childers <[email protected]>
Authored: Wed May 22 12:14:47 2013 -0400
Committer: Chip Childers <[email protected]>
Committed: Wed May 22 12:16:13 2013 -0400

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 docs/en-US/Release_Notes.xml |   53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cloudstack/blob/e720e8a1/docs/en-US/Release_Notes.xml
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diff --git a/docs/en-US/Release_Notes.xml b/docs/en-US/Release_Notes.xml
index dca95d3..25e1175 100644
--- a/docs/en-US/Release_Notes.xml
+++ b/docs/en-US/Release_Notes.xml
@@ -4586,7 +4586,7 @@ under the License.
       versions of Citrix CloudStack (last version prior to Apache is 3.0.2) 
and from the releases
       made while CloudStack was in the Apache Incubator.</para>
     <para>If you run into any issues during upgrades, please feel free to ask 
questions on
-      [email protected] or [email protected].</para>
+      [email protected] or [email protected].</para>
     <section id="upgrade-from-4.0-to-4.1">
       <title>Upgrade from 4.0.x to 4.1.0</title>
       <para>This section will guide you from &PRODUCT; 4.0.x versions to 
&PRODUCT; 4.1.0.</para>
@@ -4647,6 +4647,23 @@ under the License.
             automatically. (If you're unsure, we recommend making a backup of 
the original
               <filename>components.xml</filename> to be on the safe 
side.</para>
         </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+            <para>After upgrading to 4.1, API clients are expected to send 
plain text passwords for login and user creation, instead of MD5 hash. Incase, 
api client changes are not acceptable, following changes are to be made for 
backward compatibility:</para>
+            <para>Modify componentsContext.xml, and make 
PlainTextUserAuthenticator as the default authenticator (1st entry in the 
userAuthenticators adapter list is default)</para>
+            <programlisting language="XML">
+&lt;!-- Security adapters --&gt;
+&lt;bean id="userAuthenticators" 
class="com.cloud.utils.component.AdapterList"&gt;
+  &lt;property name="Adapters"&gt;
+    &lt;list&gt;
+      &lt;ref bean="PlainTextUserAuthenticator"/&gt;
+      &lt;ref bean="MD5UserAuthenticator"/&gt;
+      &lt;ref bean="LDAPUserAuthenticator"/&gt;
+    &lt;/list&gt;
+  &lt;/property&gt;
+&lt;/bean&gt;
+            </programlisting>
+            <para>PlainTextUserAuthenticator works the same way 
MD5UserAuthenticator worked prior to 4.1.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem id="upgrade-deb-packages">
           <para>If you are using Ubuntu, follow this procedure to upgrade your 
packages. If not,
             skip to step <xref linkend="upgrade-rpm-packages"/>.</para>
@@ -5111,6 +5128,23 @@ service cloudstack-agent start
           </note>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
+            <para>After upgrading to 4.1, API clients are expected to send 
plain text passwords for login and user creation, instead of MD5 hash. Incase, 
api client changes are not acceptable, following changes are to be made for 
backward compatibility:</para>
+            <para>Modify componentsContext.xml, and make 
PlainTextUserAuthenticator as the default authenticator (1st entry in the 
userAuthenticators adapter list is default)</para>
+            <programlisting language="XML">
+&lt;!-- Security adapters --&gt;
+&lt;bean id="userAuthenticators" 
class="com.cloud.utils.component.AdapterList"&gt;
+  &lt;property name="Adapters"&gt;
+    &lt;list&gt;
+      &lt;ref bean="PlainTextUserAuthenticator"/&gt;
+      &lt;ref bean="MD5UserAuthenticator"/&gt;
+      &lt;ref bean="LDAPUserAuthenticator"/&gt;
+    &lt;/list&gt;
+  &lt;/property&gt;
+&lt;/bean&gt;
+            </programlisting>
+            <para>PlainTextUserAuthenticator works the same way 
MD5UserAuthenticator worked prior to 4.1.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
           <para>Start the first Management Server. Do not start any other 
Management Server nodes
             yet.</para>
           <programlisting language="Bash"><prompt>#</prompt> service 
cloudstack-management start</programlisting>
@@ -5689,6 +5723,23 @@ service cloudstack-agent start
           </orderedlist>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
+            <para>After upgrading to 4.1, API clients are expected to send 
plain text passwords for login and user creation, instead of MD5 hash. Incase, 
api client changes are not acceptable, following changes are to be made for 
backward compatibility:</para>
+            <para>Modify componentsContext.xml, and make 
PlainTextUserAuthenticator as the default authenticator (1st entry in the 
userAuthenticators adapter list is default)</para>
+            <programlisting language="XML">
+&lt;!-- Security adapters --&gt;
+&lt;bean id="userAuthenticators" 
class="com.cloud.utils.component.AdapterList"&gt;
+  &lt;property name="Adapters"&gt;
+    &lt;list&gt;
+      &lt;ref bean="PlainTextUserAuthenticator"/&gt;
+      &lt;ref bean="MD5UserAuthenticator"/&gt;
+      &lt;ref bean="LDAPUserAuthenticator"/&gt;
+    &lt;/list&gt;
+  &lt;/property&gt;
+&lt;/bean&gt;
+            </programlisting>
+            <para>PlainTextUserAuthenticator works the same way 
MD5UserAuthenticator worked prior to 4.1.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
           <para>If you have made changes to your existing copy of the
               <filename>/etc/cloud/management/db.properties</filename> file in 
your previous-version
             CloudStack installation, the changes will be preserved in the 
upgrade. However, you need

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