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Allen Wittenauer commented on HADOOP-7119: ------------------------------------------ It would be good to have someone outside the community do a security review/audit of Alfredo. It is simply too young to be trusted. Until that happens, my comfort level with this patch is low. > add Kerberos HTTP SPNEGO authentication support to Hadoop JT/NN/DN/TT > web-consoles > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-7119 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7119 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: security > Affects Versions: 0.23.0 > Environment: all > Reporter: Alejandro Abdelnur > Assignee: Alejandro Abdelnur > Attachments: ha-common-01.patch, ha-common-02.patch, ha-commons.patch > > > Currently the JT/NN/DN/TT web-consoles don't support any form of > authentication. > Hadoop RPC API already supports Kerberos authentication. > Kerberos enables single sign-on. > Popular browsers (Firefox and Internet Explorer) have support for Kerberos > HTTP SPNEGO. > Adding support for Kerberos HTTP SPNEGO to Hadoop web consoles would provide > a unified authentication mechanism and single sign-on for Hadoop web UI and > Hadoop RPC. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira