Hi all, Hortonworks has a patch for secure append for Apache Hadoop 0.20.205 to work with HBase 0.90.x. However, secure Hadoop and HBase would work until kerberos token expires. There is currently no code that renews kerberos token in HBase. Hence, it is possible to add a cron job to periodically renew the HBase user token to keep the system running. What does the community think about having a setup script for cron job as part of HBase upcoming minor release, and fix the token renewal in HBase code for the next major version. On the other hand, would the community accept the token renewal code in HBase as part of the upcoming 0.90.5 release? If yes, what is the time line for 0.90.5?
regards, Eric
