Alejandro Abdelnur created HDFS-6826:
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             Summary: Plugin interface to enable delegation of HDFS 
authorization assertions
                 Key: HDFS-6826
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-6826
             Project: Hadoop HDFS
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: security
    Affects Versions: 2.4.1
            Reporter: Alejandro Abdelnur
            Assignee: Alejandro Abdelnur


When Hbase data, HiveMetaStore data or Search data is accessed via services 
(Hbase region servers, HiveServer2, Impala, Solr) the services can enforce 
permissions on corresponding entities (databases, tables, views, columns, 
search collections, documents). It is desirable, when the data is accessed 
directly by users accessing the underlying data files (i.e. from a MapReduce 
job), that the permission of the data files map to the permissions of the 
corresponding data entity (i.e. table, column family or search collection).

To enable this we need to have the necessary hooks in place in the NameNode to 
delegate authorization to an external system that can map HDFS 
files/directories to data entities and resolve their permissions based on the 
data entities permissions.

I’ll be posting a design proposal in the next few days.




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