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Allen Wittenauer commented on HADOOP-8121:
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Docs:

Is the only documentation going to be the javadoc code?  How are admins 
supposed to find this?

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{code}
+ * ShellBasedUnixGroupsMapping should be sufficient. However, in cases where
{code}

"is preferred" rather than "should be sufficient".  


{code}
+ * access control, this class maybe used to communicate directly with the LDAP
{code}

may be 

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Functional:

a) I'm still concerned about what happens when this code hits a search limit.  
I suspect that the places most likely to deploy this plug-in will have this 
issue...

b) Am I correct that we don't support cascading groupOfNames?  If not, that 
should also be documented.
                
> Active Directory Group Mapping Service
> --------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-8121
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8121
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: security
>            Reporter: Jonathan Natkins
>            Assignee: Jonathan Natkins
>         Attachments: HADOOP-8121.patch, HADOOP-8121.patch, HADOOP-8121.patch, 
> HADOOP-8121.patch, HADOOP-8121.patch, HADOOP-8121.patch, HADOOP-8121.patch, 
> HADOOP-8121.patch, HADOOP-8121.patch
>
>
> Planning on building a group mapping service that will go and talk directly 
> to an Active Directory setup to get group memberships

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