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nova list --host=<> silently ignored if not admin

Asked by Gavin B

nova list --host=<name> is treated like a simple nova list if the user is not an admin, i.e. the --host=<name> filter is silently ignored.

Should there not be an insufficient-privileges error message in this case ? Otherwise there is room for confusion.

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This question was originally filed as bug #1052347.

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Subashini Soundararajan (subashini-rajan17) said : 		#1

To validate the bug

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Subashini Soundararajan (subashini-rajan17) said : 		#2

I was looking at the nova api code that returns the list of servers to nova client. It appears that ignoring the host parameter when the user is not admin is by design. According to the current implementation when there is any parameter not applicable to a non-admin user, it is removed and the rest of the command options are processed. I'll try to bring this to notice to a reviewer/approver.

This is the commit which removes all the parameters not applicable to a non-admin user. Look for _get_servers method in servers.py

5b866f3a » klmitch
2012-01-09 Serialization, deserialization, and response code decorators.
514 remove_invalid_options(context, search_opts,

https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/5b866f3ad18d497d39a35248c2b0fdb62fcfaa81

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#3

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