I agree it's confusing. I have no idea what this is for or why it would be needed. Isn't there already a principal field? (-u). What happened to that?
-- Christopher L Tubbs II http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Eric Newton <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree. If the authentication mechanism needs more information, the > extension mechanism needs to indicate it. > > > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Josh Elser <[email protected]> wrote: > >> % accumulo shell -u root - >> 26 17:08:35,072 [impl.**DefaultFileSystemManager] INFO : Using >> "/tmp/foobar" as temporary files store. >> Enter password - the password for the principal: *********************** >> Enter principal - option field to provide the principal, mostly used for >> better debug statements: >> >> This is new to me. Seems... a little strange to get prompted for something >> that will give me better debug statements. Actually, to be honest, I have >> no idea what that even means or why I would care when I want to just open >> the shell. >> >> Can anyone give an explanation as to what this is actually doing? Is it >> something that we want to prompt for the user for all the time? >> >> I could see this raising a lot of confusion for the normal ZooKeeper >> authentication mechanism. >>
