Github user stanlyxiang commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/incubator-hawq/pull/1250#discussion_r120043142 --- Diff: ranger-plugin/service/src/main/java/org/apache/hawq/ranger/authorization/Utils.java --- @@ -68,6 +77,30 @@ public static String getVersion() { } /** + * Retrieves the authentication + * @return kerberos or simple[default] + */ + public static String getAuth() { + return System.getProperty(AUTH_KEY_ENV, properties.getProperty(AUTH_KEY_FILE, "simple")); --- End diff -- public static final String SIMPLE="simple"; and use SIMPLE here. So does EMPTY_STRING for ""
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