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Zhijie Shen commented on HADOOP-10453:
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[~wheat9] and [~daryn], what's the alternative solution if AuthenticatedURL is
not used? Is it possible to fix the aforementioned problems instead of
defaulting the feature?
In addition to YARN RM and TimelineSever, HttpFS seem to still use
AuthenticatedURL as well. We also notice that there're the parallel effort to
improve the http authentication code (HADOOP-10799).
> Do not use AuthenticatedURL in hadoop core
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>
> Key: HADOOP-10453
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-10453
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Haohui Mai
> Priority: Blocker
>
> As [~daryn] has suggested in HDFS-4564:
> {quote}
> AuthenticatedURL is not used because it is buggy in part to causing replay
> attacks, double attempts to kerberos authenticate with the fallback
> authenticator if the TGT is expired, incorrectly uses the fallback
> authenticator (required by oozie servers) to add the username parameter which
> webhdfs has already included in the uri.
> AuthenticatedURL's attempt to do SPNEGO auth is a no-op because the JDK
> transparently does SPNEGO when the user's Subject (UGI) contains kerberos
> principals. Since AuthenticatedURL is now not used, webhdfs has to check the
> TGT itself for token operations.
> Bottom line is AuthenticatedURL is unnecessary and introduces nothing but
> problems for webhdfs. It's only useful for oozie's anon/non-anon support.
> {quote}
> However, several functionalities that relies on SPNEGO in secure mode suffer
> from the same problem. For example, NNs / JNs create HTTP connections to
> exchange fsimage and edit logs. Currently all of them are through
> {{AuthenticatedURL}}. This needs to be fixed to avoid security
> vulnerabilities.
> This jira purposes to remove {{AuthenticatedURL}} from hadoop core and to
> move it to oozie.
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