[
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4104?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12629595#action_12629595
]
Sameer Paranjpye commented on HADOOP-4104:
------------------------------------------
bq. My opinion would be to avoid adding security and access checks that are
specific to libhdfs only. Does libhdfs work on non-unix platforms? If so, then
we should avoid using calls like geteuid(). It will keep the library
very-hadoop-centric rather than being unix-centric.
+1
Hadoop doesn't have authentication. The ugi and permissions implementation is
aimed at preventing mistakes rather than providing any real security. I don't
see why libhdfs should take it upon itself to do more. Any future
authentication work in Hadoop can be leveraged by libhdfs.
> add time, permission and user attribute support to libhdfs
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HADOOP-4104
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4104
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: libhdfs
> Reporter: Pete Wyckoff
> Assignee: Pete Wyckoff
> Fix For: 0.19.0
>
> Attachments: HADOOP-4104.txt
>
>
> 1. add mtime, accesstime, owner, permissions to HDFSFileInfo
> 2. create hdfsChown, hdfsChmod, hdfsUtime functions
> 3. create hdfsConnectAsUser function
--
This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
-
You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
