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> New API for libhdfs to get FileSystem object as a proxy user
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-12953
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12953
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: fs
>            Reporter: Uday Kale
>            Assignee: Uday Kale
>         Attachments: HADOOP-12953.001.patch
>
>
> Secure impersonation in HDFS needs users to create proxy users and work with 
> those. In libhdfs, the hdfsBuilder accepts a userName but calls 
> FileSytem.get() or FileSystem.newInstance() with the user name to connect as. 
> But, both these interfaces use getBestUGI() to get the UGI for the given 
> user. This is not necessarily true for all services whose end-users would not 
> access HDFS directly, but go via the service to first get authenticated with 
> LDAP, then the service owner can impersonate the end-user to eventually 
> provide the underlying data.
> For such services that authenticate end-users via LDAP, the end users are not 
> authenticated by Kerberos, so their authentication details wont be in the 
> Kerberos ticket cache. HADOOP_PROXY_USER is not a thread-safe way to get this 
> either. 
> Hence the need for the new API for libhdfs to get the FileSystem object as a 
> proxy user using the 'secure impersonation' recommendations. This approach is 
>  secure since HDFS authenticates the service owner and then validates the 
> right for the service owner to impersonate the given user as allowed by 
> hadoop.proxyusers.* parameters of HDFS config.



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