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Allen Wittenauer commented on HDFS-1150:
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Why can't the current setuid code launch the DataNode code as root, DataNode
does uid detection, and then drops privs as necessary? This allows you to
store the user name to run the DataNode process as in the XML, limits the dist
to one setuid exec, fixes the necessity to run the hadoop script as root, etc,
etc.
Also, where is the equivalent fix for the TaskTracker? Is anything preventing
a TaskTracker from giving bad input to a task?
> Verify datanodes' identities to clients in secure clusters
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HDFS-1150
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1150
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: data-node
> Affects Versions: 0.22.0
> Reporter: Jakob Homan
> Assignee: Jakob Homan
> Attachments: HDFS-1150-y20.build-script.patch,
> HDFS-1150-Y20S-ready-5.patch, HDFS-1150-Y20S-ready-6.patch,
> HDFS-1150-Y20S-ready-7.patch, HDFS-1150-Y20S-ready-8.patch,
> HDFS-1150-Y20S-Rough-2.patch, HDFS-1150-Y20S-Rough-3.patch,
> HDFS-1150-Y20S-Rough-4.patch, HDFS-1150-Y20S-Rough.txt
>
>
> Currently we use block access tokens to allow datanodes to verify clients'
> identities, however we don't have a way for clients to verify the
> authenticity of the datanodes themselves.
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