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Trusts
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OpenStack Identity manages authentication and authorization. A trust is
an OpenStack Identity extension that enables delegation and, optionally,
impersonation through ``keystone``. A trust extension defines a
relationship between:

**Trustor**
  The user delegating a limited set of their own rights to another user.

**Trustee**
  The user trust is being delegated to, for a limited time.

  The trust can eventually allow the trustee to impersonate the trustor.
  For security reasons, some safeties are added. For example, if a trustor
  loses a given role, any trusts the user issued with that role, and the
  related tokens, are automatically revoked.

The delegation parameters are:

**User ID**
  The user IDs for the trustor and trustee.

**Privileges**
  The delegated privileges are a combination of a project ID and a
  number of roles that must be a subset of the roles assigned to the
  trustor.

  If you omit all privileges, nothing is delegated. You cannot
  delegate everything.

**Delegation depth**
  Defines whether or not the delegation is recursive. If it is
  recursive, defines the delegation chain length.

  Specify one of the following values:

  - ``0``. The delegate cannot delegate these permissions further.

  - ``1``. The delegate can delegate the permissions to any set of
    delegates but the latter cannot delegate further.

  - ``inf``. The delegation is infinitely recursive.

**Endpoints**
  A list of endpoints associated with the delegation.

  This parameter further restricts the delegation to the specified
  endpoints only. If you omit the endpoints, the delegation is
  useless. A special value of ``all_endpoints`` allows the trust to be
  used by all endpoints associated with the delegated project.

**Duration**
  (Optional) Comprised of the start time and end time for the trust.

.. note::

   See the administrator guide on `removing expired trusts`_ for recommended
   maintenance procedures.

.. _`removing expired trusts`: ../admin/manage-trusts.html
