.TH CAUTHTOOL 8 .SH NAME cauthtool \- ceph keyring manipulation tool .SH SYNOPSIS .B cauthtool \fIkeyringfile\fP [ \fB\-l\fR | \fB\-\-list\fR ] [ \fB\-c\fR | \fB\-\-create-keyring\fR ] [ \fB\-p\fR | \fB\-\-print\fR ] [ \fB\-n\fR | \fB\-\-name\fR \fIentityname\fP ] [ \fB\-\-gen-key\fR ] [ \fB\-a\fR | \fB\-\-add-key \fIbase64_key\fP ] [ \fB\-\-caps\fR \fIcapfils\fP ] .SH DESCRIPTION .B cauthtool is a utility to create, view, and modify a Ceph keyring file. A keyring file stores one or more Ceph authentication keys and possibly an associated capability specification. Each key is associated with an entity name, of the form \fI{client,mon,mds,osd}.name\fP. .SH OPTIONS .TP \fB\-l\fP, \fB\-\-list\fP will list all keys and capabilities present in the keyring. .TP \fB\-p\fP, \fB\-\-print\fP will print an encoded key for the specified \fIentityname\fP. This is suitable for the mount -o secret= argument. .TP \fB\-c\fP, \fB\-\-create-keyring\fP will create a new keyring, overwriting any existing \fIkeyringfile\fP. .TP \fB\-\-gen\-key\fP will generate a new secret key for the specified \fIentityname\fP: .TP \fB\-\-add\-key\fP will add an encoded key to the keyring. .TP \fB\-\-caps\fI capsfile \fP will set the capabilities associated with a given key. .SH CAPS FILE FORMAT The caps file format consists of zero or more key/value pairs. The key is the name of the Ceph subsystem (osd, mds, mon). The value is a comma separated list of allow, deny clauses with a permission specifier containing one or more of \fIrwx\fP, for read, write, and execute permission. For example, .IP osd = "allow rwx [pool foo]" # can read, write, and execute objects .IP mds = "allow" # can access mds server .IP mon = "allow rwx" # can modify cluster state (i.e., is a server daemon) .PP A librados user restricted to a single pool might look like .IP osd = "allow rw pool foo" .PP A client mounting the file system with minimal permissions would need caps like .IP mds = "allow" .IP osd = "allow rw pool data" .PP .SH EXAMPLE To create a new keyring containing a key for \fIclient.foo\fP: .IP cauthtool -c -n client.foo --gen-key keyring.bin .PP To associate some capabilities with the key: .IP cauthtool -n client.foo --caps foocaps.conf keyring.bin .PP To display the contents of the keyring: .IP cauthtool -l keyring.bin .PP When mount a Ceph file system, you can grab the appropriately encoded secret key with .IP mount -t ceph serverhost:/ mountpoint -o name=foo,secret=`cauthtool -p -n client.foo keyring.bin` .PP .SH AVAILABILITY .B cauthtool is part of the Ceph distributed file system. Please refer to the Ceph wiki at http://ceph.newdream.net/wiki for more information. .SH SEE ALSO .BR ceph (8)