Benoy Antony created HADOOP-10448:
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             Summary: Support pluggable mechanism to specify proxy user settings
                 Key: HADOOP-10448
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-10448
             Project: Hadoop Common
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: security
    Affects Versions: 2.3.0
            Reporter: Benoy Antony
            Assignee: Benoy Antony


We have a requirement to support large number of superusers. (users who 
impersonate as another user) 
(http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.2.1/Secure_Impersonation.html) 

Currently each  superuser needs to be defined in the core-site.xml via 
proxyuser settings. This will be cumbersome when there are 1000 entries.

It seems useful to have a pluggable mechanism to specify  proxy user settings 
with the current approach as the default. 





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