Hi, Looking at this further, it appears that when HBaseRPC is creating a proxy (e.g., SecureRpcEngine), it injects the current user: User.getCurrent() which by default is the cached Kerberos TGT (kinit'ed user - using the "hadoop-user-kerberos" JAAS context).
Since the server proxy always uses User.getCurrent(), how can an application inject the user it wants to use for authorization checks on the peer (region server)? And since SecureHadoopUser is a static class, how can you have more than 1 active user in the same application? What you have works for a single user application like the hbase shell, but what about a multi-user application? Am I missing something? Thanks! -Tony -----Original Message----- From: Alejandro Abdelnur [mailto:t...@cloudera.com] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 11:40 AM To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: hadoop security API (repost) Tony, If you are doing a server app that interacts with the cluster on behalf of different users (like Ooize, as you mentioned in your email), then you should use the proxyuser capabilities of Hadoop. * Configure user MYSERVERUSER as proxyuser in Hadoop core-site.xml (this requires 2 properties settings, HOSTS and GROUPS). * Run your server app as MYSERVERUSER and have a Kerberos principal MYSERVERUSER/MYSERVERHOST * Initialize your server app loading the MYSERVERUSER/MYSERVERHOST keytab * Use the UGI.doAs() to create JobClient/Filesystem instances using the user you want to do something on behalf * Keep in mind that all the users you need to do something on behalf should be valid Unix users in the cluster * If those users need direct access to the cluster, they'll have to be also defined in in the KDC user database. Hope this helps. Thx On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 6:22 AM, Tony Dean <tony.d...@sas.com> wrote: > Yes, but this will not work in a multi-tenant environment. I need to be able > to create a Kerberos TGT per execution thread. > > I was hoping through JAAS that I could inject the name of the current > principal and authenticate against it. I'm sure there is a best practice for > hadoop/hbase client API authentication, just not sure what it is. > > Thank you for your comment. The solution may well be associated with the > UserGroupInformation class. Hopefully, other ideas will come from this > thread. > > Thanks. > > -Tony > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ivan Frain [mailto:ivan.fr...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 8:14 AM > To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org > Subject: Re: hadoop security API (repost) > > Hi Tony, > > I am currently working on this to access HDFS securely and programmaticaly. > What I have found so far may help even if I am not 100% sure this is the > right way to proceed. > > If you have already obtained a TGT from the kinit command, hadoop library > will locate it "automatically" if the name of the ticket cache corresponds to > default location. On Linux it is located /tmp/krb5cc_uid-number. > > For example, with my linux user hdfs, I get a TGT for hadoop user 'ivan' > meaning you can impersonate ivan from hdfs linux user: > ------------------------------------------ > hdfs@mitkdc:~$ klist > Ticket cache: FILE:/tmp/krb5cc_10003 > Default principal: i...@hadoop.lan > > Valid starting Expires Service principal > 02/07/2012 13:59 02/07/2012 23:59 krbtgt/hadoop....@hadoop.lan renew > until 03/07/2012 13:59 > ------------------------------------------- > > Then, you just have to set the right security options in your hadoop client > in java and the identity will be i...@hadoop.lan for our example. In my > tests, I only use HDFS and here a snippet of code to have access to a secure > hdfs cluster assuming the previous TGT (ivan's impersonation): > > -------------------------------------------- > val conf: HdfsConfiguration = new HdfsConfiguration() > > conf.set(CommonConfigurationKeysPublic.HADOOP_SECURITY_AUTHENTICATION, > "kerberos") > > conf.set(CommonConfigurationKeysPublic.HADOOP_SECURITY_AUTHORIZATION, > "true") > conf.set(DFSConfigKeys.DFS_NAMENODE_USER_NAME_KEY, > serverPrincipal) > > UserGroupInformation.setConfiguration(conf) > > val fs = FileSystem.get(new URI(hdfsUri), conf) > -------------------------------------------- > > Using this 'fs' is a handler to access hdfs securely as user 'ivan' even if > ivan does not appear in the hadoop client code. > > Anyway, I also see two other options: > * Setting the KRB5CCNAME environment variable to point to the right > ticketCache file > * Specifying the keytab file you want to use from the UserGroupInformation > singleton API: > UserGroupInformation.loginUserFromKeytab(user, keytabFile) > > If you want to understand the auth process and the different options to > login, I guess you need to have a look to the UserGroupInformation.java > source code (release 0.23.1 link: http://bit.ly/NVzBKL). The private class > HadoopConfiguration line 347 is of major interest in our case. > > Another point is that I did not find any easy way to prompt the user for a > password at runtim using the actual hadoop API. It appears to be somehow > hardcoded in the UserGroupInformation singleton. I guess it could be nice to > have a new function to give to the UserGroupInformation an authenticated > 'Subject' which could override all default configurations. If someone have > better ideas it could be nice to discuss on it as well. > > > BR, > Ivan > > 2012/7/1 Tony Dean <tony.d...@sas.com> > >> Hi, >> >> The security documentation specifies how to test a secure cluster by >> using kinit and thus adding the Kerberos principal TGT to the ticket >> cache in which the hadoop client code uses to acquire service tickets >> for use in the cluster. >> What if I created an application that used the hadoop API to >> communicate with hdfs and/or mapred protocols, is there a >> programmatic way to inform hadoop to use a particular Kerberos >> principal name with a keytab that contains its password key? I >> didn't see a way to integrate with JAAS KrbLoginModule. >> I was thinking that if I could inject a callbackHandler, I could pass >> the principal name and the KrbLoginModule already has options to >> specify keytab. >> Is this something that is possible? Or is this just not the right >> way to do things? >> >> I read about impersonation where authentication is performed with a >> system user such as "oozie" and then it just impersonates other users >> so that permissions are based on the impersonated user instead of the >> system user. >> >> Please help me understand my options for executing hadoop tasks in a >> multi-tenant application. >> >> Thank you! >> >> >> > > > -- > Ivan Frain > 11, route de Grenade > 31530 Saint-Paul-sur-Save > mobile: +33 (0)6 52 52 47 07 > -- Alejandro
