Updated version of the diff with the -X flag used to turn cephX off, -x 
to turn it on (for historical consistency) and an updated help output 
that reflects this change. CephX is on by default.

I figured I'd send this out independent of the issues around vstart 
working when cephX is off getting sorted out.

-Joe Buck


On 10/21/2012 02:35 PM, Sage Weil wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Oct 2012, Joe Buck wrote:
>> It looks like vstart.sh does not work without authx enabled. Given that, I'd
>> propose to change the default to having cephx be enabled and then use the -x
>> flag to disable cephx.
>>
>> Interestingly enough, the help output for vstart.sh already states that the -x
>> flag disables authx (which is not the case at present, but is after this patch
>> is applied).
>>
>> I've attached a patch to vstart that 1) changes the mention of authx to cephx
>> for consistency and 2) defaults vstart.sh to using cephx with the -x flag now
>> serving to disable cephx.
> Sounds like a good change, but let's make -x do nothing and -X disable
> cephx, so that existing habitual typing of -x doesn't lead to failure.
>
> Also, we should fix the auth none usage at some point.  :)
>
> sage