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Alejandro Abdelnur commented on HADOOP-9968:
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Got it, thx for the explanation. following the ACL pattern his seems OK.

What I don't follow is why do we need this initialization? It seems that 
NetGroup membership is not resolved unless explicitly initialized for the 
netgroup. Am i correct with this? 

Also, digging a bit (though not introduced by this patch), it  seems there is a 
problem. If {{Groups.refresh()}} is called, the cache is flushed and you'll 
lose all these settings. This will happen with ACLs as well. 



> ProxyUsers does not work with NetGroups
> ---------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-9968
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9968
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Benoy Antony
>            Assignee: Benoy Antony
>         Attachments: HADOOP-9968.patch, HADOOP-9968.patch, HADOOP-9968.patch, 
> hadoop-9968-1.2.patch
>
>
> It is possible to use NetGroups for ACLs. This requires specifying  the 
> config property hadoop.security.group.mapping as  
> org.apache.hadoop.security.JniBasedUnixGroupsNetgroupMapping or 
> org.apache.hadoop.security.ShellBasedUnixGroupsNetgroupMapping.
> The authorization to proxy a user by another user is specified as a list of 
> groups hadoop.proxyuser.<user-name>.groups. The Group resolution does not 
> work  if we are using NetGroups.



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