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Christopher Tubbs commented on ACCUMULO-2907:
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[~jmark99]. Gotcha. I think maybe it is the case that the message is still
potentially useful until ACCUMULO-1300 is fully implemented.
However, it is only useful in rare cases, because it is rare for users to
implement their own authentication mechanism. As [~elserj] pointed out, we only
recently provided our own alternative "community" implementation. Given this
rarity, I'm inclined to go ahead and merge your pull request in to remove the
message as-is, on the argument that there's no reason to confuse *most* people,
because the message *might* be useful to *some* people who have customized
their authentication system. I would expect that anybody customizing their
authentication system would already understand that this particular prompt
isn't useful to them.
That said, you could do what Josh suggested, and check the configuration, and
only suppress the message if the authenticator hasn't been changed from the
default.
> Invalidate "this may not be applicable for your security setup" warning from
> initialize
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> Key: ACCUMULO-2907
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-2907
> Project: Accumulo
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Josh Elser
> Assignee: Mark Owens
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: newbie
>
> The warning that is printed about setting a root password may not be
> applicable for your security setup is invalid because the plugable
> authentication modules do not manage the root user and it is expected that
> there will always be a local root user with a password.
> Remove the warning.
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