Thanks Vel. Shouldn't we make sure that "/service/plugins/policies" can't
be invoked unless two way SSL is in place?

Colm.

On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 6:03 PM, Velmurugan Periasamy <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Colm:
>
> In kerberized environments, /service/plugins/secure/policies/download
> should
> be used for download and will be restricted to valid plugins as you pointed
> out. /service/plugins/policies will need to be protected by two way SSL and
> exists for backward compatibility.
>
> Thanks,
> Vel
>
> From:  Colm O hEigeartaigh <[email protected]>
> Reply-To:  "[email protected]" <[email protected]>,
> "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Date:  Tuesday, May 2, 2017 at 8:50 AM
> To:  "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Subject:  Authorization for policy downloads
>
> Hi all,
>
> A quick question for something that is puzzling me. I can download policies
> from then Admin service with no credentials like e.g.:
>
> curl -v http://localhost:6080/service/plugins/policies/download/cl1_hadoop
>
> However, when my kerberized HDFS plugin tries to pull policies down (as the
> "hdfs" user), I get an authorization error that the user is not allowed to
> download the policies. I have to edit the "cl1_hadoop" configuration and
> add the "hdfs" user to the "policy.download.auth.users" property.
>
> Why is this step necessary when I can just download the policies with no
> credentials with curl? Are we looking at a security issue here?
>
> Colm.
>
>
> --
> Colm O hEigeartaigh
>
> Talend Community Coder
> http://coders.talend.com
>
>
>
>


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