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Andrzej Bialecki commented on HADOOP-4490:
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What about Cygwin / Windows users?
> Map and Reduce tasks should run as the user who submitted the job
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> Key: HADOOP-4490
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4490
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: mapred, security
> Reporter: Arun C Murthy
> Assignee: Hemanth Yamijala
> Fix For: 0.20.0
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> Currently the TaskTracker spawns the map/reduce tasks, resulting in them
> running as the user who started the TaskTracker.
> For security and accounting purposes the tasks should be run as the job-owner.
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