You can run these commands from the proxy server or any server that has access to the Identity Service. If you use the Identity Service, use the following commands. If you use swauth, use the default_swift_cluster variable to connect to your swift cluster. Follow the swauth documentation to verify your installation. Export the swift admin password, which you set up previously, to a variable: $ export ADMINPASS=secrete If you do not wish to have the swift admin password stored in your shell's history, you can run the following command: $ export SWIFT_PROXY_CONF="/etc/swift/proxy-server.conf export ADMINPASS=$( grep admin_password ${SWIFT_PROXY_CONF} | awk '{ print $NF }' ) Export the ADMINPASS environment variable: $ export ADMINPASS=secrete Run the following swift command with the correct Identity Service URL:$ swift -V 2.0 -A http://<AUTH_HOSTNAME>:5000/v2.0 -U demo:admin -K $ADMINPASS stat Get the X-Storage-Url and X-Auth-Token headers: $ curl -s http://<AUTH_HOSTNAME>:5000/v2.0/tokens -X 'POST' -d '{"auth":{"passwordCredentials":{"username":"demo", "password":"$DEMOPASS"}}}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" | python -mjson.tool Check that you can HEAD the account: $ curl -X HEAD -i -H "X-Auth-Token:<token-returned-from-above-request>' <internal-url-returned-above-including-AUTHnnnnnn> For example: HTTP/1.1 204 No Content Content-Length: 0 Accept-Ranges: bytes X-Timestamp: 1375369982.17376 X-Account-Bytes-Used: 0 X-Account-Container-Count: 0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Account-Object-Count: 0 X-Trans-Id: txb014c725573b44f48e260002f39ce2b6 Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 18:39:00 GMT Run the following swift commands to upload files to a container: $ swift -V 2.0 -A http://<AUTH_HOSTNAME>:5000/v2.0 -U demo:admin -K $ADMINPASS upload myfiles bigfile1.tgz $ swift -V 2.0 -A http://<AUTH_HOSTNAME>:5000/v2.0 -U demo:admin -K $ADMINPASS upload myfiles bigfile2.tgz Run the following swift command to download all files from the ‘myfiles’ container: $ swift -V 2.0 -A http://<AUTH_HOSTNAME>:5000/v2.0 -U demo:admin -K $ADMINPASS download myfiles