Eric Payne created YARN-1115:
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Summary: Provide optional means for a scheduler to check real user
ACLs
Key: YARN-1115
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-1115
Project: Hadoop YARN
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: scheduler
Affects Versions: 0.23.9, 2.1.0-beta
Reporter: Eric Payne
In the framework for secure implementation using UserGroupInformation.doAs
(http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/Secure_Impersonation.html), a trusted
superuser can submit jobs on behalf of another user in a secure way. In this
framework, the superuser is referred to as the real user and the proxied user
is referred to as the effective user.
Currently when a job is submitted as an effective user, the ACLs for the
effective user are checked against the queue on which the job is to be run.
Depending on an optional configuration, the scheduler should also check the
ACLs of the real user if the configuration to do so is set.
For example, suppose my superuser name is super, and super is configured to
securely proxy as joe. Also suppose there is a Hadoop queue named ops which
only allows ACLs for super, not for joe.
When super proxies to joe in order to submit a job to the ops queue, it will
fail because joe, as the effective user, does not have ACLs on the ops queue.
In many cases this is what you want, in order to protect queues that joe should
not be using.
However, there are times when super may need to proxy to many users, and the
client running as super just wants to use the ops queue because the ops queue
is already dedicated to the client's purpose, and, to keep the ops queue
dedicated to that purpose, super doesn't want to open up ACLs to joe in general
on the ops queue. Without this functionality, in this case, the client running
as super needs to figure out which queue each user has ACLs opened up for, and
then coordinate with other tasks using those queues.
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