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Jitendra Nath Pandey commented on HADOOP-7987: ---------------------------------------------- The javadoc warnings have existed in trunk for a while now. > Support setting the run-as user in unsecure mode > ------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HADOOP-7987 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7987 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: security > Affects Versions: 0.23.0, 0.24.0, 1.0.0 > Reporter: Devaraj Das > Assignee: Jitendra Nath Pandey > Fix For: 0.24.0, 0.23.1, 1.1.0 > > Attachments: HADOOP-7987.branch-1.patch, HADOOP-7987.trunk.patch > > > Some applications need to be able to perform actions (such as launch MR jobs) > from map or reduce tasks. In earlier unsecure versions of hadoop (20.x), it > was possible to do this by setting user.name in the configuration. But in > 20.205 and 1.0, when running in unsecure mode, this does not work. (In secure > mode, you can do this using the kerberos credentials). -- 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