This section describes what Eucalyptus access is and what you need to
know about it so that you can configure access to your cloud.
User Identities
In Eucalyptus, user identities are organized into accounts. An account is the unit of resource usage accounting, and also a separate namespace for many resources (security groups, key pairs, users, etc.).
Special Identities
Eucalyptus has two special identities for the convenience of administration and use of the system.
Credentials
This topic describes the different types of credentials used by Eucalyptus.
Account Creation
This topic describes the process for creating an account using the command line tool.
Special User Attributes
Eucalyptus extends the IAM model by providing the following extra attributes for a user.