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Keys Botzum commented on DRILL-4281:
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This appears related to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-291 but I
think potentially different so I've opened this bug separated. Drill-291
appears to address SASL usage throughout the stack. This JIRA is just for the
client being able to authenticate using Kerberos (web and JDBC/ODBC).
> Drill should support inbound impersonation
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> Key: DRILL-4281
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-4281
> Project: Apache Drill
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Keys Botzum
> Labels: security
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> Today Drill supports impersonation *to* external sources. For example I can
> authenticate to Drill as myself and then Drill will access HDFS using
> impersonation
> In many scenarios we also need impersonation to Drill. For example I might
> use some front end tool (such as Tableau) and authenticate to it as myself.
> That tool (server version) then needs to access Drill to perform queries and
> I want those queries to run as myself, not as the Tableau user. While in
> theory the intermediate tool could store the userid & password for every user
> to the Drill this isn't a scalable or very secure solution.
> Note that HS2 today does support inbound impersonation as described here:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5155
> The above is not the best approach as it is tied to the connection object
> which is very coarse grained and potentially expensive. It would be better if
> there was a call on the ODBC/JDBC driver to switch the identity on a existing
> connection. Most modern SQL databases (Oracle, DB2) support such function.
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