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Jimmy Xiang reassigned HBASE-5050:
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Assignee: Jimmy Xiang
> [rest] SPNEGO-based authentication
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> Key: HBASE-5050
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5050
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: REST, security
> Reporter: Andrew Purtell
> Assignee: Jimmy Xiang
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> Currently the REST gateway can authenticate to a HBase cluster using a
> preconfigured principal. This provides a limited form of secure operation
> where one or more gateways can be deployed with distinct principals granting
> appropriate levels of privilege, but the service ports must be protected
> through network ACLs. This is at best a stopgap.
> SPNEGO is the standard mechanism for Kerberos authentication over HTTP.
> Enhance the REST gateway such that it provides this option, and issues
> requests to the HBase cluster with the established context.
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