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Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE commented on HADOOP-4348:
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Some comments on the patch:

- Do we need to check for superuser in order to run 
refreshAuthorizationPolicy() in MRAdmin and DFSAdmin?  

- Perission subclasses must be immutable.  So their fields should be final.

- Similarly, User and Group principals are better be immutable.

- Why any ConnectionPermission implies ConnectionPermission of 
VersionedProtocol?  Also, the implies(..) method need javadoc.

- ConnectionPermission .getActions() should not return null.  How about 
returning ALLOWED?  Then, we could support negative permission setting by 
adding DENIED in the future.

- Need descriptions for the properties in hadoop-policy.xml, especially for the 
syntax.  These documentation changes may be done in a separated issue.

- I think using multiplication in hashCode() may not be a good idea.  How about
address.hashCode() ^ protocol.hashCode() ^ System.identityHashCode(ticket)?

- Should we throw IOException instead of RuntimeException when there is a 
LoginException?  Also, it is better the include the cause exception in the new 
exception.

- In AuthorizationException, how about calling setStackTrace(null) to clean up 
the trace?

- The changes in IsolationRunner and LocalJobRunner should be reverted.


> Adding service-level authorization to Hadoop
> --------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-4348
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4348
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: security
>            Reporter: Kan Zhang
>            Assignee: Arun C Murthy
>             Fix For: 0.20.0
>
>         Attachments: HADOOP-4348_0_20081022.patch, 
> HADOOP-4348_1_20081201.patch, HADOOP-4348_2_20081202.patch, 
> HADOOP-4348_3_20081204.patch, jaas_service_v1.patch, jaas_service_v2.patch, 
> jaas_service_v3.patch, ServiceLevelAuthorization.pdf, 
> ServiceLevelAuthorization.pdf
>
>
> 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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