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+patrole
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+Patrole is a tool for verifying that Role-Based Access Control is being enforced.
+
+Patrole allows users to run API tests using specified RBAC roles.  This allows
+deployments to verify that only intended roles have access to those APIs.
+This is critical to ensure security, especially in large deployments with
+custom roles.
+
+* Free software: Apache license
+* Documentation: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/patrole
+* Source: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/patrole
+* Bugs: http://bugs.launchpad.net/patrole
+
+Features
+--------
+
+* TODO