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Allen Wittenauer updated HADOOP-9840: ------------------------------------- Labels: BB2015-05-TBR Rhino (was: Rhino) > Improve User class for UGI and decouple it from Kerberos > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-9840 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9840 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: security > Reporter: Kai Zheng > Assignee: Kai Zheng > Priority: Minor > Labels: BB2015-05-TBR, Rhino > Attachments: HADOOP-9840-v2.patch, HADOOP-9840.patch, > HADOOP-9840.patch > > > As discussed in HADOOP-9797, it would be better to improve UGI incrementally. > Open this JIRA to improve User class to: > * Make it extensible as a base class, then can have subclasses like > SimpleUser for Simple authn, KerberosUser for Kerberos authn, > IdentityTokenUser for TokenAuth (in future), and etc. > * Decouple it from Kerberos. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)