+1 in general. +1 for Kerberos to handle authentication and authorization On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Tze Hon Tan <[email protected]> wrote:
> +1 > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Owen O'Malley <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > With the upcoming freeze of Map/Reduce 0.21, for the first time, we have > > code that is critical from a system security perspective. As outlined on > > http://www.apache.org/security/committers.html this will be a private > list > > with only committers that are working on the security aspects of Hadoop. > The > > use of the list will be strictly limited to collecting security issues > from > > users so that they can fixed and released before they are announced on > > public forums, such as jira. Clearly, I'm +1. > > > > On a related note, my plan is to work on getting full Kerberos > integration > > for 0.22. We've come a long way without any authentication in Hadoop, but > it > > is getting important to start closing the holes. > > > > -- Owen > > >
