Github user joshelser commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/zookeeper/pull/182#discussion_r104744229
--- Diff: src/docs/src/documentation/content/xdocs/zookeeperProgrammers.xml
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@@ -899,9 +899,12 @@
single id, <emphasis>anyone</emphasis>, that represents
anyone.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><emphasis role="bold">auth</emphasis> doesn't
- use any id, represents any authenticated
- user.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para><emphasis role="bold">auth</emphasis> is a
convenience
+ scheme which defaults to the currently-authenticated user and
scheme.
+ Any ID which is provided using this scheme is ignored by ZooKeeper.
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Thanks for taking a look, @hanm!
> I think the ID here refers to the id of the scheme:id pair of the ID
object in the ACL, correct?
Yup, that's what I was intending. Perhaps I should try to clarify that
better :)
> the auth scheme is also referenced in command line where people can do
'setAcl /node auth:username:password:crdwa' in which case the username
(sometimes overloaded as id) is required.
OK, that's a good point which I didn't realize. I would have expected that
`auth:username:password:crdwa` would have resulted in ignoring
`username:password`. Let me play with that to better understand it..
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