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Eron Wright commented on AMBARI-7204:
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Some review comments:
1. Support numerous cross-realm trusts. The cluster's home realm may require
trust relationships with numerous other realms, both northward (trusted) and
southward (trusting) of the cluster realm. For example, users from numerous AD
realms may communicate with the cluster. The cluster may in turn communicate
with numerous backend storage systems (each in an independent realm).
2. Improve the organization of the KDC information within the plan. The
terms 'managed' and 'unmanaged' appear to serve numerous purposes and are
overloaded. For example, in the current schema, how would one define an
unmanaged KDC for the cluster plus a trust relationship with another (umanaged)
realm? The term 'unmanaged' cannot be used twice as a key. My suggestion
is to provide three sections:
a. "cluster", defining the KDC for the Hadoop cluster itself, with either a
'managed' or 'unmanaged' section within.
b. "trusted", defining a +list+ of realms that are to be trusted, each with
a 'trust_password' (if the cluster KDC is managed).
c. "trusting", defining a +list+ of realms that are to be trusting, each
with a 'trust_password' (if the cluster KDC is managed).
3. Forwardable tickets. Please ensure that any managed KDC is configured to
generate forwardable tickets.
4. Clarify whether 'trust' principals are automatically created in the
'unmanaged' cluster KDC scenario. I think it is clear that keytabs are
created in every scenario. But the cross-realm trust principal for a given
trust relationship, in what cases is it created by Ambari? My vote is, only
in the managed scenario.
5. Provide a user extension point. For settings not contemplated in the
proposal, perhaps the user may provide snippets to be included in krb5.conf.
> Ambari Automated Kerberization
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>
> Key: AMBARI-7204
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMBARI-7204
> Project: Ambari
> Issue Type: Epic
> Components: ambari-server, security, stacks
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0
> Environment: Kerberos
> Reporter: Robert Levas
> Assignee: Robert Levas
> Labels: active-directory, authentication, kerberos,
> mit-kerberos, security, stack
> Attachments: AmbariClusterKerberization.pdf
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> Original Estimate: 2,016h
> Remaining Estimate: 2,016h
>
> *Problem*
> Manually installing and setting up Kerberos for a secure Hadoop cluster is
> error prone, largely manual and a potential source of configuration problems.
> It requires many steps where configuration files and credentials may need to
> be distributed across many nodes. Because of this the process is time
> consuming and lead to a high probability of user error.
> The problem is exacerbated when the cluster is modified by adding or removing
> nodes and services.
> *Solution*
> Use Ambari to secure the cluster using Kerberos. By automating the process
> of setting up Kerberos, the repetitive tasks of distributing configuration
> details and credentials can be done in parallel to the nodes within the
> cluster. This also negates most user-related errors due to the lack of
> interaction a user has with the process.
> See [^AmbariClusterKerberization.pdf] for more details.
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