[stgt] tgt-admin behavior with multiple targets and same account name

Chandra Seetharaman sekharan at us.ibm.com
Thu Mar 4 19:33:40 CET 2010


On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 14:33 +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:35:03 -0800
> Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > Looks like it will lead to confusion if we allow the account to be
> > defined at the target level.
> > 
> > May be we should define the account (account name and password) at the
> > global level and have just the "association" at the target level, what
> > do you think ?
> 
> This is the way how tgt implements the authentication so if tgt-admin
> works in that way, we see less confusion, I think. However, it means
> that we need to change the targets.conf format? I think that we should
> avoid it.

IMO, if we maintain backward compatibility (i.e older syntax will work
if new syntax is _not_ used), it should be ok.

May be we could add "version" to targets.conf, which would make it easy
for future updates/additions.

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