Still working on the draft. In the meantime, found one more place documenting this issue (leaving it here so we remember to revise it later): The help text for 'show_multiple_locations' in the sample config file says: # DEPRECATED: # Show all image locations when returning an image. # # This configuration option indicates whether to show all the image # locations when returning image details to the user. When multiple # image locations exist for an image, the locations are ordered based # on the location strategy indicated by the configuration opt # ``location_strategy``. The image locations are shown under the # image property ``locations``. # # NOTES: # * Revealing image locations can present a GRAVE SECURITY RISK as # image locations can sometimes include credentials. Hence, this # is set to ``False`` by default. Set this to ``True`` with # EXTREME CAUTION and ONLY IF you know what you are doing! # * See https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OSSN/OSSN-0065 for more # information. # * If an operator wishes to avoid showing any image location(s) # to the user, then both this option and # ``show_image_direct_url`` MUST be set to ``False``. # # Possible values: # * True # * False # # Related options: # * show_image_direct_url # * location_strategy # # (boolean value) # This option is deprecated for removal since Newton. # Its value may be silently ignored in the future. # Reason: Use of this option, deprecated since Newton, is a security risk and # will be removed once we figure out a way to satisfy those use cases that # currently require it. An earlier announcement that the same functionality can # be achieved with greater granularity by using policies is incorrect. You # cannot work around this option via policy configuration at the present time, # though that is the direction we believe the fix will take. Please keep an eye # on the Glance release notes to stay up to date on progress in addressing this # issue. #show_multiple_locations = false Also, here's the text for 'show_image_direct_url': # # Show direct image location when returning an image. # # This configuration option indicates whether to show the direct image # location when returning image details to the user. The direct image # location is where the image data is stored in backend storage. This # image location is shown under the image property ``direct_url``. # # When multiple image locations exist for an image, the best location # is displayed based on the location strategy indicated by the # configuration option ``location_strategy``. # # NOTES: # * Revealing image locations can present a GRAVE SECURITY RISK as # image locations can sometimes include credentials. Hence, this # is set to ``False`` by default. Set this to ``True`` with # EXTREME CAUTION and ONLY IF you know what you are doing! # * If an operator wishes to avoid showing any image location(s) # to the user, then both this option and # ``show_multiple_locations`` MUST be set to ``False``. # # Possible values: # * True # * False # # Related options: # * show_multiple_locations # * location_strategy # # (boolean value) #show_image_direct_url = false