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Gary Helmling commented on HBASE-3025:
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Authentication is currently limited to Kerberos (v5), same as Hadoop security.
PKI (and SSL certificate) authentication is not supported.
HBase RPC encryption is supported via a configuration parameter (with options
for integrity or confidentiality). RPC connections support mutual
authentication of endpoints.
Authorization is the core feature of this issue. Authorization of data access
and operations is performed based on access control lists configured per table
or per column family. Once the client has authenticated with a region server,
the client will be able to perform read/write operations on tables/column
families to which the client is granted access, as defined by the access
control lists. Attempts to read/write data which have not been allowed will
throw an AccessDeniedException.
> Coprocessor based simple access control
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> Key: HBASE-3025
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3025
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: coprocessors
> Reporter: Andrew Purtell
> Assignee: Eugene Koontz
> Attachments: HBASE-3025.1.patch
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> Thanks for the clarification Jeff which reminds me to edit this issue.
> Goals of this issue
> # Client access to HBase is authenticated
> # User data is private unless access has been granted
> # Access to data can be granted at a table or per column family basis.
> Non-Goals of this issue
> The following items will be left out of the initial implementation for
> simplicity:
> # Row-level or per value (cell) This would require broader changes for
> storing the ACLs inline with rows. It's still a future goal, but would slow
> down the initial implementation considerably.
> # Push down of file ownership to HDFS While table ownership seems like a
> useful construct to start with (at least to lay the groundwork for future
> changes), making HBase act as table owners when interacting with HDFS would
> require more changes. In additional, while HDFS file ownership would make
> applying quotas easy, and possibly make bulk imports more straightforward,
> it's not clean it would offer a more secure setup. We'll leave this to
> evaluate in a later phase.
> # HBase managed "roles" as collections of permissions We will not model
> "roles" internally in HBase to begin with. We will instead allow group names
> to be granted permissions, which will allow some external modeling of roles
> via group memberships. Groups will be created and manipulated externally to
> HBase.
> While the assignment of permissions to roles and roles to users (or other
> roles) allows a great deal of flexibility in security policy, it would add
> complexity to the initial implementation.
> After the initial implementation, which will appear on this issue, we will
> evaluate the addition of role definitions internal to HBase in a new JIRA. In
> this scheme, administrators could assign permissions specifying HDFS groups,
> and additionally HBase roles. HBase roles would be created and manipulated
> internally to HBase, and would appear distinct from HDFS groups via some
> syntactic sugar. HBase role definitions will be allowed to reference other
> HBase role definitions.
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