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Github user harshach commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-storm/pull/166#issuecomment-49237484
@revans2 Thanks for the feedback. Regarding caching methods in the
interface these are provided for potential plugins which might be fetching
group info from ldap or active directory and can add caching to those calls.
Regarding ShellProcess I will work in integrating that into ShellUtils.
> (Security) authentication should allow for groups not just users
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> Key: STORM-347
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STORM-347
> Project: Apache Storm (Incubating)
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Robert Joseph Evans
> Assignee: Sriharsha Chintalapani
> Labels: security
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> It would really be great if authentication for topology access, and the UI
> could support groups, not just users.
> It might be worth looking at some Hadoop code that already does things like
> this.
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