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ASF GitHub Bot commented on NIFI-3534:
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Github user apsaltis commented on a diff in the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/1581#discussion_r159500278
  
    --- Diff: 
nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-hadoop-bundle/nifi-hdfs-processors/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/processors/hadoop/AbstractHadoopProcessor.java
 ---
    @@ -295,7 +320,11 @@ HdfsResources resetHDFSResources(String 
configResources, ProcessContext context)
                 } else {
                     config.set("ipc.client.fallback-to-simple-auth-allowed", 
"true");
                     config.set("hadoop.security.authentication", "simple");
    -                ugi = SecurityUtil.loginSimple(config);
    +                if (context.getProperty(REMOTE_USER).isSet()) {
    +                    ugi = 
UserGroupInformation.createRemoteUser(context.getProperty(REMOTE_USER).evaluateAttributeExpressions().getValue());
    --- End diff --
    
    I will move the code to the SecurityUtil class. Also, will fix the JIRA -- 
creating a remote user, not impersonating is the desired effect. 


> Add support for impersonating a user with HDFS processors 
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: NIFI-3534
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-3534
>             Project: Apache NiFi
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Andrew Psaltis
>            Assignee: Andrew Psaltis
>
> When using the HDFS processors, specifically PutHDFS there are times when a 
> user wants to impersonate a user so that the files written to HDFS are done 
> as the remote user. In cases where Kerberos is not used, this is not 
> possible. Currently there is the ability for NiFi to change the permissions 
> using the Remote Owner and Remote Group, however, this only works if NiFi is 
> running as a user that has HDFS super user privilege. By providing the 
> ability to set a Remote User, NiFi can then impersonate the user and the 
> permission checks will be done in Hadoop land. 



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