If you already have an admin key in the database - that is more useful
than the master_api_key - I don't believe there is anything that the
master API key can do that the admin API key cannot (let me know if I
am wrong). I created master_api_key mostly just to bootstrap users and
API keys for new
From: John Chilton [jmchil...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 6:39 AM
To: Dooley, Damion
Cc: galaxy-dev@lists.bx.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [galaxy-dev] master_api_key currently doesn't benefit from a real
admin's key?!
If you already have an admin key
I made the erroneous assumption that if I put my own admin user API key into
the galaxy configuration master_api_key field, it would accept that and run all
the api functions that needed a key connected to a user. It took fair bit of
debugging to realize that the master_api_key field chops off
