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Kan Zhang commented on HADOOP-4348:
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> It would be simpler to add it to the RPC layer, and I have yet to hear a
> strong reason why that would be wrong.
There is nothing wrong about it, but to have effective authorization we can't
rely on ugi's sent by the clients because clients may lie. They may
authenticate as one user at the beginning of a connection and subsequently use
a different ugi when making calls. So at the server side, you either
authenticate the user for each call (which may not always be possible since
many authentication protocols require more than one message passing to
authenticate a user) or authenticate the user at the beginning of a connection
and associate an authenticated user ID with the connection, such that all
subsequent authorization checking on calls will use that authenticated user ID.
The latter implies one user per connection.
> Adding service-level authorization to Hadoop
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>
> Key: HADOOP-4348
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4348
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Kan Zhang
> Assignee: Arun C Murthy
> Fix For: 0.20.0
>
> Attachments: HADOOP-4348_0_20081022.patch
>
>
> Service-level authorization is the initial checking done by a Hadoop service
> to find out if a connecting client is a pre-defined user of that service. If
> not, the connection or service request will be declined. This feature allows
> services to limit access to a clearly defined group of users. For example,
> service-level authorization allows "world-readable" files on a HDFS cluster
> to be readable only by the pre-defined users of that cluster, not by anyone
> who can connect to the cluster. It also allows a M/R cluster to define its
> group of users so that only those users can submit jobs to it.
> Here is an initial list of requirements I came up with.
> 1. Users of a cluster is defined by a flat list of usernames and groups.
> A client is a user of the cluster if and only if her username is listed in
> the flat list or one of her groups is explicitly listed in the flat list.
> Nested groups are not supported.
> 2. The flat list is stored in a conf file and pushed to every cluster
> node so that services can access them.
> 3. Services will monitor the modification of the conf file periodically
> (5 mins interval by default) and reload the list if needed.
> 4. Checking against the flat list is done as early as possible and before
> any other authorization checking. Both HDFS and M/R clusters will implement
> this feature.
> 5. This feature can be switched off and is off by default.
> I'm aware of interests in pulling user data from LDAP. For this JIRA, I
> suggest we implement it using a conf file. Additional data sources may be
> supported via new JIRA's.
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