Colin Patrick McCabe created HADOOP-8450:
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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...
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