Harsh J created YARN-3021:
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             Summary: YARN's delegation-token handling disallows certain trust 
setups to operate properly
                 Key: YARN-3021
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-3021
             Project: Hadoop YARN
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: security
    Affects Versions: 2.3.0
            Reporter: Harsh J


Consider this scenario of 3 realms: A, B and COMMON, where A trusts COMMON, and 
B trusts COMMON (one way trusts both), and both A and B run HDFS + YARN 
clusters.

Now if one logs in with a COMMON credential, and runs a job on A's YARN that 
needs to access B's HDFS (such as a DistCp), the operation fails in the RM, as 
it attempts a renewDelegationToken(…) synchronously during application 
submission (to validate the managed token before it adds it to a scheduler for 
automatic renewal). The call obviously fails cause B realm will not trust A's 
credentials (here, the RM's principal is the renewer).

In the 1.x JobTracker the same call is present, but it is done asynchronously 
and once the renewal attempt failed we simply ceased to schedule any further 
attempts of renewals, rather than fail the job immediately.

We should change the logic such that we attempt the renewal but go easy on the 
failure and skip the scheduling alone, rather than bubble back an error to the 
client, failing the app submission. This way the old behaviour is retained.



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