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

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