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Harsh J commented on HADOOP-8152: --------------------------------- We also have public docs on letting users use UserGroupInformation for secure impersonation, at http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r1.0.0/Secure_Impersonation.html (for example). > Expand public APIs for security library classes > ----------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-8152 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8152 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: security > Affects Versions: 0.23.3 > Reporter: Aaron T. Myers > > Currently projects like Hive and HBase use UserGroupInformation and > SecurityUtil methods. Both of these classes are marked > LimitedPrivate(HDFS,MR) but should probably be marked more generally public. -- 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