Hi Sean,

The Kerberos Tickets that are being used are not renewable.   Should they
be?   I assume even if they are after their renewable time expires I will
run into the same issue?

Thanks,

Hokie


On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi Hokie!
>
> Are the kerberos tickets you're getting renewable?
>
> -Sean
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Hyokwon Lee <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> I am currently running into an issue and was hoping someone may have some
>> insight to the problem.
>>
>> Running Accumulo 1.4.3 on top of a Kerberos enabled Hadoop. I followed
>> the following instructions in the README:
>>
>> "If you are running on top of hdfs with kerberos enabled, then you need to do
>> some extra work. First, create an Accumulo principal
>>
>>   kadmin.local -q "addprinc -randkey accumulo/<host.domain.name>"
>>
>> where <host.domain.name> is replaced by a fully qualified domain name. Export
>> the principals to a keytab file. It is safer to create a unique keytab file 
>> for each
>> server, but you can also glob them if you wish.
>>
>>   kadmin.local -q "xst -k accumulo.keytab -glob accumulo*"
>>
>> Place this file in $ACCUMULO_HOME/conf for every host. It should be owned by
>> the accumulo user and chmodded to 400. Add the following to the 
>> accumulo-env.sh
>>
>> In the accumulo-site.xml file on each node, add settings for 
>> general.kerberos.keytab
>> and general.kerberos.principal, where the keytab setting is the absolute path
>> to the keytab file ($ACCUMULO_HOME is valid to use) and principal is set to
>> accumulo/_HOST@<REALM>, where REALM is set to your kerberos realm. You may 
>> use
>> _HOST in lieu of your individual host names.
>>
>>   <property>
>>     <name>general.kerberos.keytab</name>
>>     <value>$ACCUMULO_HOME/conf/accumulo.keytab</value>
>>   </property>
>>
>>   <property>
>>     <name>general.kerberos.principal</name>
>>     <value>accumulo/_HOST@MYREALM</value>
>>   </property>
>>
>> You can then start up Accumulo as you would with the accumulo user, and it 
>> will
>> automatically handle the kerberos keys needed to access hdfs.
>>
>> Please Note: You may have issues initializing Accumulo while running 
>> kerberos HDFS.
>> You can resolve this by temporarily granting the accumulo user write access 
>> to the
>> hdfs root directory, running init, and then revoking write permission in the 
>> root
>> directory (be sure to maintain access to the /accumulo directory)."
>>
>>
>> After doing so, got accumulo to come up and initially it states on start up 
>> that i authenticated using accumulo/[email protected].  For the 
>> next 24 hour it is happy and everything works.   However after the 24 hour 
>> marker which is when the kerberos ticket expires, I start seeing the 
>> following errors on all TServers:
>>
>>
>> [securty.UserGroupInformation] ERROR: PrivilegedActionException 
>> as:accumulo/[email protected] (auth:KERBEROS) 
>> cause:javax.security.sasl.SaslException: GSS initiate failed [Caused by 
>> GSSException: No valid credentials provided (Mechanism level: Failed to find 
>> any Kerberos tgt)]
>>
>> [ipc.Client] WARN : Exception encountered while connecting to the server : 
>> javax.security.sasl.SasleEception: GSS initiate failed [Caused by 
>> GSSException: No valid credentials provided (Mechanism level: Failed to find 
>> any Kerberos tgt)]
>>
>> [securty.UserGroupInformation] ERROR: PrivilegedActionException 
>> as:accumulo/[email protected] (auth:KERBEROS) 
>> cause:javax.security.sasl.SaslException: GSS initiate failed [Caused by 
>> GSSException: No valid credentials provided (Mechanism level: Failed to find 
>> any Kerberos tgt)]
>>
>>
>> And as far as I can tell this just retries and keeps failing.   I checked 
>> the accumulo.keytab file and it is a glob so it has the entries for every 
>> server that Accumulo is on.   Also if I manually do a kinit -kt 
>> accumulo.keytab accumulo/[email protected] it works find and I 
>> get a valid ticket.  I also made sure everything in hdfs under "/accumulo" 
>> is owned by accumulo so that doesn't seem to be the problem.  Also made sure 
>> after kiniting I can access the directory path and all sub directories.
>>
>>
>> So far the only thing that seems to fix my issue is if I bounce all accumulo 
>> services and it is happy again.  Also until I bounce the accumulo services, 
>> I get error logs stating it cannot scan any of the tables (unable to scan 
>> metadata, root_tablet, default_tablet, etc.)  Has anyone else seen this 
>> issue?  Did I miss a configuration somewhere possibly?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Hokie
>>
>>
>>
>


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