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Velmurugan Periasamy commented on RANGER-2936:
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Should this not be derived from the environment, instead of forcing in the
client?
> Support for policy download mode configuration on plugin
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>
> Key: RANGER-2936
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RANGER-2936
> Project: Ranger
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: plugins
> Reporter: Jalpan Randeri
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: newbie, pull-request-available
> Attachments:
> 0001-RANGER-2936-Support-for-policy-download-mode-configu.patch,
> 0001-RANGER-2936-Support-for-policy-download-mode-configu.patch.1.patch
>
>
> h3. Description
> Ranger Plugins uses RangerAdminRESTClient to download policies. Ranger Admin
> server exposes two different endpoints for policy downloads
> # Secure mode
> # normal mode RangerAdminRESTClient select mode secure mode if Hadoop
> cluster is running in Kerberos.
> [https://github.com/apache/ranger/blob/master/agents-common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/admin/client/RangerAdminRESTClient.java#L129]
> Since, Ranger admin server is capable of managing heterogeneous Hadoop
> clusters. Ranger plugins are unable to communicate with Ranger admin server
> under following scenario
> * Ranger Plugin is running on Hadoop cluster protected by Kerberos
> * Ranger Admin server is running in non-Kerberos mode
> Above mentioned scenario, ranger plugins are observing following error
> {quote}
> {{2020-06-13 03:47:20 WARN RangerAdminRESTClient:176 - [] Error getting
> policies.
> secureMode=true,
> user=hive (auth:KERBEROS),
> response=
> {"httpStatusCode":401,"statusCode":401,"msgDesc":"Authentication Failed"}
> ,
> serviceName=hivedev}}
> {quote}
> h3. How to this patch mitigate issue?
> This patch introduces boolean configuration
> {{ranger.plugin.\{service}.policyDownload.secureMode}} in
> RangerAdminRESTClient.
> * true use secure mode to download policies
> * false use simple mode to download policies
> Plugin will read this configuration to determine policy download mode
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