Alejandro Abdelnur created HDFS-6826: ----------------------------------------
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. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)