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Larry McCay reassigned HADOOP-10607:
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Assignee: Larry McCay (was: Owen O'Malley)
> Create an API to separate Credentials/Password Storage from Applications
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> Key: HADOOP-10607
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-10607
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: security
> Reporter: Larry McCay
> Assignee: Larry McCay
> Fix For: 3.0.0
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> As with the filesystem API, we need to provide a generic mechanism to support
> multiple credential storage mechanisms that are potentially from third
> parties.
> We need the ability to eliminate the storage of passwords and secrets in
> clear text within configuration files or within code.
> Toward that end, I propose an API that is configured using a list of URLs of
> CredentialProviders. The implementation will look for implementations using
> the ServiceLoader interface and thus support third party libraries.
> Two providers will be included in this patch. One using the credentials cache
> in MapReduce jobs and the other using Java KeyStores from either HDFS or
> local file system.
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