Comment 1 for bug 1504800

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Sam Yaple (s8m) wrote :

Sorry guys. been meaning to fix this. I brought this up in the HA documents. There are two ways to fix this.

1. Setup HAproxy as source balanced for Horizon and nova-consoleauth
2. Setup Horizon and nova-consoleauth to use memcached

I do not like memcached due to its nature. It has no security and with a single oneliner you can rip all of the valid tokens out of a memcached server. Since most environments are not configured correctly from a network security point of view what ends up happening is that from an unprivileged guest in a VM I can get undetected admin access to the entire OpenStack environment.

As such, I am strongly against making anything memcache the default option, but I am ok with making it configurable. I will work up the source patch today and we can discuss it on Wednesday.