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Lefty Leverenz commented on HIVE-7846:
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This needs to be documented in Hive Default Authorization Mode (Legacy mode),
in the "Names of Users and Roles" section.
* [Hive Default Authorization Mode (Legacy mode) |
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=45876173]
> authorization api should support group, not assume case insensitive role names
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> Key: HIVE-7846
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-7846
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Authorization
> Reporter: Thejas M Nair
> Assignee: Thejas M Nair
> Labels: TODOC14
> Fix For: 0.14.0
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> Attachments: HIVE-7846.1.patch
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> The case insensitive behavior of roles should be specific to sql standard
> authorization.
> Group type for principal also should be disabled at the sql std authorization
> layer, instead of disallowing it at the API level.
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