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Kan Zhang updated HADOOP-4359:
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Status: Patch Available (was: Open)
> Support for data access authorization checking on DataNodes
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> Key: HADOOP-4359
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4359
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: dfs
> Reporter: Kan Zhang
> Assignee: Kan Zhang
> Attachments: at13.patch, at19.patch, at31.patch, at33.patch,
> at34.patch, at35.patch, at36.patch, at37.patch, at38.patch, at39.patch
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> Currently, DataNodes do not enforce any access control on accesses to its
> data blocks. This makes it possible for an unauthorized client to read a data
> block as long as she can supply its block ID. It's also possible for anyone
> to write arbitrary data blocks to DataNodes.
> When users request file accesses on the NameNode, file permission checking
> takes place. Authorization decisions are made with regard to whether the
> requested accesses to those files (and implicitly, to their corresponding
> data blocks) are permitted. However, when it comes to subsequent data block
> accesses on the DataNodes, those authorization decisions are not made
> available to the DataNodes and consequently, such accesses are not verified.
> Datanodes are not capable of reaching those decisions independently since
> they don't have concepts of files, let alone file permissions.
> In order to implement data access policies consistently across HDFS services,
> there is a need for a mechanism by which authorization decisions made on the
> NameNode can be faithfully enforced on the DataNodes and any unauthorized
> access is declined.
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