Colin Patrick McCabe created HADOOP-8450: --------------------------------------------
Summary: tidy up src/test/system/c++/runAs Key: HADOOP-8450 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8450 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 2.0.0-alpha Reporter: Colin Patrick McCabe Priority: Trivial runAs is a binary in the hadoop-common project. It seems to allow you to run a hadoop daemon as another user. However, it requires setuid privileges in order to do this. * Do we still need this binary? Who is using it and are there better solutions out there? My understanding is that setuid binaries are something we generally try to avoid. * If we do need it, can we add some documentation about it somewhere? * Should this binary be in the src/test directory? It doesn't seem to be testing anything. Hopefully that covers everything... -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira