The source group of security group does not work

[Ken'ichi Ohmichi]

I created a security group with the other security group as the source group, and booted a server with the security group:

$ nova secgroup-create source-any "secgroup for any sources"
$ nova secgroup-add-rule source-any tcp 1 65535 0.0.0.0/0
$
$ nova secgroup-create accept-ssh "secgroup for ssh"
$ nova secgroup-add-group-rule accept-ssh source-any tcp 22 22
$
$ nova boot --flavor m1.nano --security-groups accept-ssh --image cirros-0.3.2-x86_64-uec vm01

but I could not access the server with SSH.

According to http://docs.openstack.org/developer/nova/nova.concepts.html#concept-security-groups , the source group is
considered as CIDR of acceptable source addresses and we can reuse it for new security groups.

[Sean Dague (sdague)]

Hmm... I sort of think this is working as designed and the docs are wrong. Is this possibly just a documentation bug?

[Ken'ichi Ohmichi (oomichi)]

I'm not sure now what is right usage of this feature.
Hopefully, some typos on the documentation would be nice.

[Anne Gentle (annegentle)]

The source for http://docs.openstack.org/developer/nova lives in the nova repo.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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