[Planetlab-devel] opening up GetSliceTicket()

[Jeannie Albrecht]

Hi Marc,
> Sounds like your solution of having the user provide their login/passwd
> info is the right way to get slice->node associations.

We're happy with that solution in Plush.

> Why does SWORD need to know slice->node associations?  Also, you
> mentioned that SWORD does not work.  Is it mainly an issue of porting it
> to the new API or is there something lacking in the new API that SWORD
> gleaned from slices.xml?

SWORD doesn't ask for login/passwds, mostly because it just uses a
simple web interface that doesn't provide enough security for users to
enter that information in plain text on a web page.  Note that SWORD
*does work* without this information, it just doesn't filter based on
nodes assigned to slices.  Instead it just returns the nodes that
satisfy the constraints across all PL hosts.  So it still works
correctly, just not optimally, since it's possible for SWORD to return
a list of machines that aren't available to a particular slice.  It
just means that users have to filter once they receive the hosts back
from SWORD.

Thanks,
Jeannie

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