Bharath Vissapragada has posted comments on this change.

Change subject: IMPALA-2660: Respect auth_to_local configs from hdfs configs
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Patch Set 4:

>Isn't that an expectation for the behaviour of auth_to_local - that it will 
>transform supplied principals in order to enable authentication? Does Hadoop 
>work like that?

Per my understanding of Kerberos, this is only called post authentication and 
auth_to_local rules map the *authenticated* principal (aname) to a local user 
(lname). The corresponding api call is krb5_aname_to_localname(). More details 
at 

http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-1.12/doc/appdev/refs/api/krb5_aname_to_localname.html#c.krb5_aname_to_localname
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-1.12/doc/plugindev/localauth.html

And yes I think Hadoop works like that too.

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