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Suresh Srinivas commented on HADOOP-10448:
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[~daryn], do you have any further comments?
> Support pluggable mechanism to specify proxy user settings
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> Key: HADOOP-10448
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-10448
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: security
> Affects Versions: 2.3.0
> Reporter: Benoy Antony
> Assignee: Benoy Antony
> Attachments: HADOOP-10448.patch, HADOOP-10448.patch,
> HADOOP-10448.patch, HADOOP-10448.patch, HADOOP-10448.patch,
> HADOOP-10448.patch, HADOOP-10448.patch, HADOOP-10448.patch, HADOOP-10448.patch
>
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> We have a requirement to support large number of superusers. (users who
> impersonate as another user)
> (http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.2.1/Secure_Impersonation.html)
> Currently each superuser needs to be defined in the core-site.xml via
> proxyuser settings. This will be cumbersome when there are 1000 entries.
> It seems useful to have a pluggable mechanism to specify proxy user settings
> with the current approach as the default.
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