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Pete Wyckoff commented on HADOOP-3764:
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I wrote:
{code}
hdfsConnectAsUser(host, port, char *user, char *grouups[])
{code}
patch coming after some debugging
> libhdfs should allow connection to the DFS as a given user
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> Key: HADOOP-3764
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3764
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: libhdfs
> Reporter: Craig Macdonald
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> Consider a gateway service (e.g. NFS server->HDFS gateway, fuse-dfs).
> In these examples, different users will connect to the the gateway service.
> In each case, libhdfs should facilitate connection using the user's security
> context. This ensures that existing permissions, ownership, group-ownership
> in the DFS are respected.
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