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Christopher Tubbs commented on ACCUMULO-3513:
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{quote}Keytabs on disk should be protected by the filesystem. ... A little C
program ... drops permissions ...{quote}
What user does the task run as? If the effective UID is the same as its parent,
the filesystem won't protect it.
{quote}... it's expected that the delegation token is protected from prying
eyes ...{quote}
There seems to be a trade-off here, with competing goals. On the one hand, we
need to make sure Accumulo doesn't give up data to an untrusted middle-man.
And, on the other hand, MapReduce needs to avoid granting access to its
credentials from an untrusted client (which Accumulo *does* trust).
If only the ResourceManager *and* the client could authenticate with Accumulo
first, then we could carry information about both of these things in the token
used to authenticate to Accumulo in the actual task, then we could trust the
middle-man (YARN task) *and* the client to be able to receive the data from
Accumulo.
> Ensure MapReduce functionality with Kerberos enabled
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> Key: ACCUMULO-3513
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3513
> Project: Accumulo
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: client
> Reporter: Josh Elser
> Assignee: Josh Elser
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 1.7.0
>
> Attachments: ACCUMULO-3513-design.pdf
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>
> I talked to [~devaraj] today about MapReduce support running on secure Hadoop
> to help get a picture about what extra might be needed to make this work.
> Generally, in Hadoop and HBase, the client must have valid credentials to
> submit a job, then the notion of delegation tokens is used by for further
> communication since the servers do not have access to the client's sensitive
> information. A centralized service manages creation of a delegation token
> which is a record which contains certain information (such as the submitting
> user name) necessary to securely identify the holder of the delegation token.
> The general idea is that we would need to build support into the master to
> manage delegation tokens to node managers to acquire and use to run jobs.
> Hadoop and HBase both contain code which implements this general idea, but we
> will need to apply them Accumulo and verify that it is M/R jobs still work on
> a kerberized environment.
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