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Francis Liu commented on HBASE-5498:
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Hi Laxman, not yet. Will look into it this week, if that's ok?
> Secure Bulk Load
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>
> Key: HBASE-5498
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5498
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: mapred, security
> Reporter: Francis Liu
> Assignee: Francis Liu
> Fix For: 0.96.0
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> Attachments: HBASE-5498_draft.patch
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>
> Design doc:
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HCATALOG/HBase+Secure+Bulk+Load
> Short summary:
> Security as it stands does not cover the bulkLoadHFiles() feature. Users
> calling this method will bypass ACLs. Also loading is made more cumbersome in
> a secure setting because of hdfs privileges. bulkLoadHFiles() moves the data
> from user's directory to the hbase directory, which would require certain
> write access privileges set.
> Our solution is to create a coprocessor which makes use of AuthManager to
> verify if a user has write access to the table. If so, launches a MR job as
> the hbase user to do the importing (ie rewrite from text to hfiles). One
> tricky part this job will have to do is impersonate the calling user when
> reading the input files. We can do this by expecting the user to pass an hdfs
> delegation token as part of the secureBulkLoad() coprocessor call and extend
> an inputformat to make use of that token. The output is written to a
> temporary directory accessible only by hbase and then bulkloadHFiles() is
> called.
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