Fixed with revision 1461330/1. I needed principal in login and my head was stuck in the smaller scope so I added it to the login properties instead of tweaking the login interface. This has now been addressed.
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Christopher <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > >> >
