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Andrew Purtell commented on HBASE-12230:
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+1
Any chance for a unit test to verify this does what you want and we don't
regress in the future?
> User impersonation does not work in 'simple' mode.
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> Key: HBASE-12230
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-12230
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: REST, security
> Affects Versions: 0.98.6.1
> Reporter: Aditya Kishore
> Assignee: Aditya Kishore
> Attachments:
> HBASE-12230-User-impersonation-does-not-work-in-simp.patch
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> The [code responsible for initializing proxy
> configuration|https://github.com/apache/hbase/blob/7cfdb38c9274e306ac37374c147a978c2cef31d6/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/security/HBasePolicyProvider.java#L54]
> does not execute unless {{"hadoop.security.authorization"}} is set to true.
> This is departure from other Hadoop components. Impersonation should not be
> tied to authorization.
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