Thanks Steve for the link. It has answers to all my questions. I will discuss it in dev mailing list.
Regards Pallavi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Loughran" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 6:00:45 PM GMT +05:30 Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi Subject: Re: Remote access to cluster using user as hadoop Pallavi Palleti wrote: > Hi all, > > I have made changes to the hadoop-0.18.2 code to allow hadoop super user > access only from some specified IP Range. If it is untrusted IP, it throws an > exception. I would like to add it as a patch so that people can use it if > needed in their environment. Can some one tell me what is the procedure to > create a patch? I could see from trunk code that there is some work related > to it happening. Especially, I am looking at Server.java code > (PrivilegedActionException being thrown for untrusted user I believe).Can > some one please clarify if it is written for the purpose that we are > discussing(validating whether it is trusted super user from a specific remote > IP)? If it is not, then I would like to add my patch. Follow the advice on http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToContribute ; the developer mailing list and hadoop issues are the ways to discuss this. New features go onto SVN_HEAD, so checking out and building that will be your first bit of work. -steve
