BELUGA BEHR created HADOOP-12644:
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             Summary: Access Control List Syntax
                 Key: HADOOP-12644
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12644
             Project: Hadoop Common
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: security
            Reporter: BELUGA BEHR
            Priority: Minor


Hello,

I was recently learning about the configuration option 
"mapreduce.job.acl-view-job."  I was looking at the syntax and the code.  I 
would like to suggest some improvements.

??the format to use is "user1,user2 group1,group". If set to '*', it allows all 
users/groups to modify this job. If set to ' '(i.e. space), it allows none.??

In reality though, the code is written to split the line on the first space it 
finds.  So:

user1,user2 group1, group2 will work.
(user1,user2),(group1, group2)

user1, user2 group1,group does not work:
(user1,),(user2 group1, group2)

Also, there are many ways to specify "all":
"*"
" *"
"* "
"* *"
"user1,user2 *"
"* group1,group2"

I would like to see the code more strictly enforce what is written in the 
documentation. This will guard against configuration mistakes.  If the input 
does not match the syntax, an error should be produced and made available in 
the logs. The use of a semi-colon as a delimiter is advisable so that any 
white-space in the list of users or groups can simply be ignore.

||mapreduce.job.acl-view-job||Meaning||
|"*"|All access|
|" "|No access|
|"user1;"|User-only access|
|";group1"|Group-only access|
|"user1;group1"|User & Group access|



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