Hi Eric, Could you please explain more fully what you mean by this? The daemons generally run using keytabs, not user credentials, and thus shouldn't need the explicit TGT Renewer, right?
-Todd On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Eric Yang <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
