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John Sichi commented on HIVE-2616: ---------------------------------- OK, can you submit the thrift patch? If we'll be able to uptake that eventually, then I'm fine with the current approach. I was thinking dynamic proxy would allow us to do the necessary method interception without needing to futz with method accessibility. Carl, are you good with this? > Passing user identity from metastore client to server in non-secure mode > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-2616 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2616 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Metastore > Reporter: Ashutosh Chauhan > Assignee: Ashutosh Chauhan > Attachments: hive-2616.patch, hive-2616_1.patch, hive-2616_3.patch > > > Currently in unsecure mode client don't pass on user identity. As a result > hdfs and other operations done by server gets executed by user running > metastore process instead of being done in context of client. This results in > problem as reported here: > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hive-user/201111.mbox/%3CCAK0mCrRC3aPqtRHDe2J25Rm0JX6TS1KXxd7KPjqJjoqBjg=a...@mail.gmail.com%3E -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira