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Robert Kanter commented on HADOOP-9054: --------------------------------------- I suppose there's nothing preventing them from doing it themselves, but this should make it easier as they won't have to worry about Kerberos or managing the two authentication mechanisms; all they'd have to do is implement one method to authenticate using their mechanism and get the other stuff for free from this code. > Add AuthenticationHandler that uses Kerberos but allows for an alternate form > of authentication for browsers > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HADOOP-9054 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9054 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: security > Reporter: Robert Kanter > Assignee: Robert Kanter > Fix For: 1.2.0, 2.0.3-alpha > > > It would be useful for some Oozie users if, when using Kerberos, that browser > access to the oozie web UI could be authenticated in a different way (w/o > Kerberos). This may be useful for other projects using Hadoop-Auth, so this > feature is to add a new AuthenticationHandler that uses Kerberos by default, > unless a browser (user-agents are configurable) is used, in which case some > other form of authentication can be used. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira