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Craig Welch commented on YARN-2198:
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-re pom.xml - maybe I'm just confused, I saw a reference to this in the pom and
assumed it needed to be somewhere in the project, I see it builds fine, so I
guess no worries there.
TestWinUtils - so what I had in mind was mocking the native bit and having some
tests for the proper behavior of the java components under various conditions -
i realize this won't test the native code, which is significant, but it will
test the java code for expected native code behavior, and there's non-trivial
java code, strikes me as possible/worthwhile
WindowsSecureContainerExecutor - understandable as a tactical approach but I'm
concerned with leaving it that way - among other things, there is quite a lot
more testing opportunity with non-secure code paths as they will be exercised
much more frequently in testing (doubly so with reference to your comment
above...), by having the non-secure and secure line up more the secure path
will end up being higher quality as most of it's codepaths will see a good deal
more use/exercise/testing, especially when new functionality is added. Also,
changes going forward should require less effort if the windows path is mostly
shared between secure and unsecure execution
> Remove the need to run NodeManager as privileged account for Windows Secure
> Container Executor
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>
> Key: YARN-2198
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-2198
> Project: Hadoop YARN
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Remus Rusanu
> Assignee: Remus Rusanu
> Labels: security, windows
> Attachments: .YARN-2198.delta.10.patch, YARN-2198.1.patch,
> YARN-2198.2.patch, YARN-2198.3.patch, YARN-2198.delta.4.patch,
> YARN-2198.delta.5.patch, YARN-2198.delta.6.patch, YARN-2198.delta.7.patch,
> YARN-2198.separation.patch, YARN-2198.trunk.10.patch,
> YARN-2198.trunk.4.patch, YARN-2198.trunk.5.patch, YARN-2198.trunk.6.patch,
> YARN-2198.trunk.8.patch, YARN-2198.trunk.9.patch
>
>
> YARN-1972 introduces a Secure Windows Container Executor. However this
> executor requires the process launching the container to be LocalSystem or a
> member of the a local Administrators group. Since the process in question is
> the NodeManager, the requirement translates to the entire NM to run as a
> privileged account, a very large surface area to review and protect.
> This proposal is to move the privileged operations into a dedicated NT
> service. The NM can run as a low privilege account and communicate with the
> privileged NT service when it needs to launch a container. This would reduce
> the surface exposed to the high privileges.
> There has to exist a secure, authenticated and authorized channel of
> communication between the NM and the privileged NT service. Possible
> alternatives are a new TCP endpoint, Java RPC etc. My proposal though would
> be to use Windows LPC (Local Procedure Calls), which is a Windows platform
> specific inter-process communication channel that satisfies all requirements
> and is easy to deploy. The privileged NT service would register and listen on
> an LPC port (NtCreatePort, NtListenPort). The NM would use JNI to interop
> with libwinutils which would host the LPC client code. The client would
> connect to the LPC port (NtConnectPort) and send a message requesting a
> container launch (NtRequestWaitReplyPort). LPC provides authentication and
> the privileged NT service can use authorization API (AuthZ) to validate the
> caller.
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