I'll bite. Do the traditional Posix bits work under Trafodion?

Gunnar

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 7:56 PM, Qifan Chen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Should we also briefly mention if the traditional Posix permission bits
> does/does not work under trafodion?
>
> thanks --Qifan
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 8:16 PM, Hans Zeller <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Gunnar, sounds good to me. Two somewhat related comments: One is that
>> if Trafodion uses a floating IP address in a cloud deployment, like Amazon
>> AWS, the trafodion id will need limited sudo capabilities to move the
>> elastic IP address from one node to another.
>>
>> The other is what we should not do: The trafodion id should not be given
>> any other sudo privileges. Also, the trafodion id should be locked (sudo
>> passwd -l trafodion). Users who need to be running as the trafodion id
>> should do that using the sudo command, e.g. sudo -u trafodion -i.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Hans
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Gunnar Tapper <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to document introductory-level security requirements for
>>> Trafodion, both runtime and during provisining
>>> (installation/upgrade/resizing/removal).
>>>
>>> This is what I have for runtime:
>>>
>>> The `trafodion:trafodion` user ID is created as part of the installation
>>> process. Trafodion runs under this ID, which must be
>>> registered as a user in the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) to
>>> store and access objects in HDFS, HBase, and Hive.
>>> In addition, the `trafodion` user ID required passwordless access among
>>> the nodes where Trafodion is installed to run cross-node Trafodion
>>> functions such as scripts.
>>>
>>> Trafodion requires that either HDFS ACLs or Kerberos is enabled.
>>>
>>> Trafodion users are managed by the Trafodion SQL security features
>>> (grant, revoke, etc.), which can be integrated with LDAP if so desired.
>>> These users are referred to as *database users* and do not have direct
>>> access to the operating system.
>>>
>>>
>>> What did I miss? What did I get wrong?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Gunnar
>>> *If you think you can you can, if you think you can't you're right.*
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Regards, --Qifan
>
>


-- 
Thanks,

Gunnar
*If you think you can you can, if you think you can't you're right.*

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