HADOOP-14095. Document caveats about the default JavaKeyStoreProvider in KMS.


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Branch: refs/heads/HDFS-9806
Commit: 06df6ab25432927cd55918440cc8a28fb4f03bfa
Parents: 66c4171
Author: Xiao Chen <[email protected]>
Authored: Fri Sep 29 19:17:32 2017 -0700
Committer: Xiao Chen <[email protected]>
Committed: Fri Sep 29 19:34:29 2017 -0700

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 hadoop-common-project/hadoop-kms/src/site/markdown/index.md.vm | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-kms/src/site/markdown/index.md.vm 
b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-kms/src/site/markdown/index.md.vm
index 1dd89e9..5490219 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-kms/src/site/markdown/index.md.vm
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-kms/src/site/markdown/index.md.vm
@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ The password file is looked up in the Hadoop's configuration 
directory via the c
 
 NOTE: You need to restart the KMS for the configuration changes to take effect.
 
+NOTE: The KMS server can choose any `KeyProvider` implementation as the 
backing provider. The example here uses a JavaKeyStoreProvider, which should 
only be used for experimental purposes and never be used in production. For 
detailed usage and caveats of JavaKeyStoreProvider, please see [Keystore 
Passwords section of the Credential Provider 
API](../hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/CredentialProviderAPI.html#Keystore_Passwords).
+
 $H3 KMS HTTP Configuration
 
 KMS pre-configures the HTTP port to 9600.
@@ -1184,4 +1186,4 @@ and `/stacks`, configure the following properties in 
`kms-site.xml`:
       to all users and groups, e.g. '*', '* ' and ' *' are all valid.
     </description>
   </property>
-```
\ No newline at end of file
+```


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