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Benoy Antony commented on HADOOP-9479:
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[~liushaohui] , Thanks for the interest in this jira. We now have a requirement
to integrate with different authentication mechanism than kerberos. So I will
be spending some time on this feature.
It will be great to know about your requirements too.
> Ability to plugin custom authentication mechanisms based on Jaas and Sasl
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> Key: HADOOP-9479
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9479
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: security
> Reporter: Benoy Antony
> Assignee: Benoy Antony
> Attachments: HADOOP-9479.patch, customauthentication.pdf
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> Currently, it is not possible to hookup new/modified authentication mechanism
> to Hadoop.
> The task is to create an extension in hadoop to plugin new Authentication
> mechanism. The new authentication mechanism should have both Jaas and Sasl
> implementations.
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