support Kerberos Authentication
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Key: ZOOKEEPER-938
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-938
Project: Zookeeper
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: server
Reporter: Eugene Koontz
Support Keberos authentication of clients.
The following usage would let an admin use Kerberos authentication to assign
ACLs to authenticated clients.
1. Admin logs into zookeeper (not necessarily through Kerberos however).
2. Admin decides that a new node called '/mynode' should be owned by the user
'zkclient' and have full permissions on this.
3. Admin does: zk> create /mynode content kerb:zkcli...@foofers.org:x:cdrwa
(note: for now, the dummy ':x' is a placeholder for the password, and is
required by the zk command parser. The user's actual password is not stored
within Zookeeper; simply put 'x' there.)
4. User 'zkclient' logins to kerberos using the command line utility 'kinit'.
5. User connects to zookeeper server using a Kerberos-enabled version of
zkClient (ZookeeperMain).
6. Behind the scenes, the client and server exchange authentication
information. User is now authenticated as 'zkclient'.
7. User accesses /mynode with permissions 'cdrwa'.
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