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Kai Zheng commented on HADOOP-11717:
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Thanks [~lmccay] and [~owen.omalley] for committing this. As I said before,
it's great to have it. I realized your point only supporting the JWT token
format here as it's good enough for your case right now.
Let me open another to go for a dedicated token authentication handler for
Hadoop web in general token API.
> Add Redirecting WebSSO behavior with JWT Token in Hadoop Auth
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HADOOP-11717
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11717
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: security
> Reporter: Larry McCay
> Assignee: Larry McCay
> Fix For: 2.8.0
>
> Attachments: HADOOP-11717-1.patch, HADOOP-11717-2.patch,
> HADOOP-11717-3.patch, HADOOP-11717-4.patch, HADOOP-11717-5.patch,
> HADOOP-11717-6.patch, HADOOP-11717-7.patch, HADOOP-11717-8.patch,
> RedirectingWebSSOwithJWTforHadoopWebUIs.pdf
>
>
> Extend AltKerberosAuthenticationHandler to provide WebSSO flow for UIs.
> The actual authentication is done by some external service that the handler
> will redirect to when there is no hadoop.auth cookie and no JWT token found
> in the incoming request.
> Using JWT provides a number of benefits:
> * It is not tied to any specific authentication mechanism - so buys us many
> SSO integrations
> * It is cryptographically verifiable for determining whether it can be trusted
> * Checking for expiration allows for a limited lifetime and window for
> compromised use
> This will introduce the use of nimbus-jose-jwt library for processing,
> validating and parsing JWT tokens.
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