Christopher Tubbs created ACCUMULO-1024:
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Summary: Deprecate built-in user management utilities
Key: ACCUMULO-1024
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-1024
Project: Accumulo
Issue Type: Sub-task
Reporter: Christopher Tubbs
The built-in user management functionality should be phased out, in favor of
the pluggable authentication model. Any user-management functions that apply to
a particular implementation of an authentication should be handled within that
implementation, and not within Accumulo's core.
This should reduce the complexity of the overall user model.
A transition plan should be established for the prior ZKAuthenticator
implementation for usernames and passwords. The former APIs for user management
should continue to work as is, and pass through to the former implementation,
but any new APIs for user management should not be introduced to the core (like
in SecurityOperations, the shell, and 'accumulo init'), because that introduces
complexity and essentially establishes a guarantee that Accumulo will handle
user management for arbitrary authentication systems... which I don't think we
can do generically.
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