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Sangjin Lee updated HADOOP-11683: --------------------------------- Target Version/s: 2.6.3 (was: 2.6.2) Targeting 2.6.3 now that 2.6.2 has shipped. > Need a plugin API to translate long principal names to local OS user names > arbitrarily > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-11683 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11683 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: security > Affects Versions: 2.6.0 > Reporter: Sunny Cheung > Assignee: roger mak > Attachments: HADOOP-11683.001.patch, HADOOP-11683.002.patch, > HADOOP-11683.003.patch > > > We need a plugin API to translate long principal names (e.g. > john....@example.com) to local OS user names (e.g. user123456) arbitrarily. > For some organizations the name translation is straightforward (e.g. > john....@example.com to john_doe), and the hadoop.security.auth_to_local > configurable mapping is sufficient to resolve this (see HADOOP-6526). > However, in some other cases the name translation is arbitrary and cannot be > generalized by a set of translation rules easily. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)