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Sandor Molnar resolved KNOX-2672.
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Fix Version/s: 1.6.0
Resolution: Fixed
> Handle gateway-level aliases in Hadoop authentication filter
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> Key: KNOX-2672
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KNOX-2672
> Project: Apache Knox
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Sandor Molnar
> Assignee: Sandor Molnar
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 1.6.0
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> Time Spent: 0.5h
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
>
> The current {{HadoopAuthFilter}} implementation is [capable of handling
> aliases on topology
> level|https://github.com/apache/knox/blob/v1.5.0/gateway-provider-security-hadoopauth/src/main/java/org/apache/knox/gateway/hadoopauth/filter/HadoopAuthFilter.java#L267-L275]:
> {noformat}
> if (value.startsWith("${ALIAS=") && value.endsWith("}")) {
> String alias = value.substring("${ALIAS=".length(), value.length()
> - 1);
> try {
> value = String.valueOf(
> aliasService.getPasswordFromAliasForCluster(clusterName,
> alias));
> } catch (AliasServiceException e) {
> throw new ServletException("Unable to retrieve alias for config:
> " + name, e);
> }
> }
> {noformat}
> However, this solution is not too flexible: imagine you create a shared
> provider configuration with the {{HadoopAuth}} provider where you want to use
> an alias (e.g the keytab file location in Cloudera Manager isn't static, it's
> relative to the Knox process's directory). At the provider creation time, you
> don't know the descriptors (topologies) that may reference your newly created
> shared provider configuration. Thus, you cannot create the desired aliases in
> advance using the Knox CLI. what you can do is to create an alias on the
> gateway-level which the HadoopAuth filter should be able to lookup.
> The suggested solution is to extend the above logic as follows: if the
> topology-level alias is not found, try to get the value from the
> gateway-level.
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