Christopher Tubbs created ACCUMULO-1028:
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Summary: Distinguish the user principal from the authentication
token
Key: ACCUMULO-1028
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-1028
Project: Accumulo
Issue Type: Sub-task
Reporter: Christopher Tubbs
The user principal is something that uniquely identifies a user. An
authentication token is the item that authenticates the user principal, may be
temporal, and may vary. It is not clear from the implementation of ACCUMULO-259
that these are separate things, and I think it would benefit the API to
distinguish them.
It could also simplify the API, for users transitioning from the old
authentication stuff to the new authentication stuff, because there would be a
one-to-one mapping with the username/password with which they are familiar:
{code:java}
public Connector getConnector(String username, byte[] password);
{code}
becomes
{code:java}
public <T extends AuthToken> Connector getConnector(Principal userPrincipal, T
authToken);
{code}
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