I created a few sub-tasks on ACCUMULO-259 to represent this, and some of the other conversations on this topic that have occurred.
-- Christopher L Tubbs II http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Keith Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Christopher <[email protected]> wrote: > > David, John- > > > > This is a good point. I think it'd be better to retain the previous > > behavior, for backwards compatibility, or eliminate all these prompts > > entirely (my preference is the latter). If I may speak about the original > > design of the user management functionality, the whole point of a "root" > > user in the first place was to provide a basis for managing other users. > > However, this role is obsoleted by any pluggable authentication > mechanism, > > because those alternate implementations may have drastically different > user > > management capabilities, and the root user is no longer required. > > > > A large part of my overall criticism of the new authentication model is > > this intermingling of pluggable authentication mechanisms with Accumulo's > > former API for user management. I find it difficult to get behind a > > pluggable authentication system that still tightly coupled to the > built-in > > user management functionality (except where needed for backwards > > compatibility with the user/password)... mainly, because I thought the > > whole point of pluggable authentication (or at least, the best argument > for > > it) was to unlink these, and allow user- and authorization-management > > external to Accumulo. > > Did you open jira issues? Want to get the API for 1.5 right since we > will have to live with it for a while. > > > > > > > -- > > Christopher L Tubbs II > > http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 11:50 PM, John Vines <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Yes, this has changed in trunk to support the pluggable authentication > >> schemes. > >> > >> Sent from my phone, please pardon the typos and brevity. > >> On Feb 1, 2013 11:36 PM, "David Medinets" <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > >> > The following command used to work: > >> > > >> > su accumulo -c "/usr/local/accumulo/bin/accumulo init > >> > --clear-instance-name --instance-name instance --password secret" > >> > > >> > but now it is asking for a name: > >> > > >> > Enter name for initial root user ( root): > >> > > >> > I can easily update my script to use --username but wanted to point > >> > out this behaviour change. > >> > > >> >
