Tushar,

I am going to take a look at this issue and then come back to you.

Thanks,

Lina

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 9:45 PM, Waterline Data <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> My question is about the Solr Sentry plugin in a Kerberos environment.
>
> We are encountering an issue with the Solr Sentry plugin. The issue is more
> fully described in SENTRY-1703
> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SENTRY-1703>, but here's the
> summary:
>
> We suspect that in a kerberized solr-sentry environment, a Solr create
> query containing multiple documents as part of the request creates multiple
> redundant sentry authorization checks (same user, same collection, same
> privilege) and hence multiple downstream KDC requests. In a high volume
> scenario, such as a multi-node spark cluster writing to Solr, this ends up
> creating a huge load on KDC and eventually sentry times out on a few random
> KDC requests, which causes it to fail to the clients with exceptions like
> "User X does not have privileges for Ycollection", which is an incorrect
> error because the client clearly has write privilege on the collection and
> it works at other times. The stacktraces and sample code to reproduce are
> attached to the bug.
>
> My question is:
>
>    1. Can someone kindly confirm the above mentioned hypothesis?
>    2. Suggest any pointers to work around this issue in the meantime?
>
> Thanks,
> Tushar.
>

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