PowerScale OneFS 9.8.0.0 Web Administration Guide

Generate another secret key

The administrator can generate more than one secret key for a user.

1. Click Protocols > Objects Storage (S3) .
2. Click the Key Management tab.
3. In the Current access zone list, click the access zone that the user belongs to.
4. Click Select user for whom you want to generate another secret key.
   The Search user dialog box appears.
5. In the Search user dialog box, enter the details in the User and Providers fields and click Search.
   The name of the user and if there is any description about the user, appears in a tabular format. You can click Reset to revert the search process.
6. Select the user from the table and click Select user.
7. Click Create new key.
   Click Show keys to view the details of the existing secret key.
   The Create secret key dialog box appears.
8. In the Keep Existing key active for minutes box, enter the value (in minutes) when the existing key must expire. You can also use the up and down arrows to adjust the values.
9. Click Create key.
   The new secret key is generated, and the following message appears:

   Created S3 Key.
   S3 key has been created successfully.

   The old key expires after the time limit that you have set.

   The default expiry time is 10 minutes. The maximum time that you can set is 1440 minutes (24 hours) and an error similar to the following appears of the time is exceeded:

   Field: existing_key_expiry_time has error: The value must be less
   than or equal to 1440.
   Input validation failed.

   Now that you have two secret keys, if you try to create a new key, the Force delete old key check box appear. You can select the check box if you want to forcefully create the key. The first key that you had created is not valid anymore. Only two keys appear at one time.