Yes, but this will not work in a multi-tenant environment. I need to be able to create a Kerberos TGT per execution thread.
I was hoping through JAAS that I could inject the name of the current principal and authenticate against it. I'm sure there is a best practice for hadoop/hbase client API authentication, just not sure what it is. Thank you for your comment. The solution may well be associated with the UserGroupInformation class. Hopefully, other ideas will come from this thread. Thanks. -Tony -----Original Message----- From: Ivan Frain [mailto:ivan.fr...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 8:14 AM To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: hadoop security API (repost) Hi Tony, I am currently working on this to access HDFS securely and programmaticaly. What I have found so far may help even if I am not 100% sure this is the right way to proceed. If you have already obtained a TGT from the kinit command, hadoop library will locate it "automatically" if the name of the ticket cache corresponds to default location. On Linux it is located /tmp/krb5cc_uid-number. For example, with my linux user hdfs, I get a TGT for hadoop user 'ivan' meaning you can impersonate ivan from hdfs linux user: ------------------------------------------ hdfs@mitkdc:~$ klist Ticket cache: FILE:/tmp/krb5cc_10003 Default principal: i...@hadoop.lan Valid starting Expires Service principal 02/07/2012 13:59 02/07/2012 23:59 krbtgt/hadoop....@hadoop.lan renew until 03/07/2012 13:59 ------------------------------------------- Then, you just have to set the right security options in your hadoop client in java and the identity will be i...@hadoop.lan for our example. In my tests, I only use HDFS and here a snippet of code to have access to a secure hdfs cluster assuming the previous TGT (ivan's impersonation): -------------------------------------------- val conf: HdfsConfiguration = new HdfsConfiguration() conf.set(CommonConfigurationKeysPublic.HADOOP_SECURITY_AUTHENTICATION, "kerberos") conf.set(CommonConfigurationKeysPublic.HADOOP_SECURITY_AUTHORIZATION, "true") conf.set(DFSConfigKeys.DFS_NAMENODE_USER_NAME_KEY, serverPrincipal) UserGroupInformation.setConfiguration(conf) val fs = FileSystem.get(new URI(hdfsUri), conf) -------------------------------------------- Using this 'fs' is a handler to access hdfs securely as user 'ivan' even if ivan does not appear in the hadoop client code. Anyway, I also see two other options: * Setting the KRB5CCNAME environment variable to point to the right ticketCache file * Specifying the keytab file you want to use from the UserGroupInformation singleton API: UserGroupInformation.loginUserFromKeytab(user, keytabFile) If you want to understand the auth process and the different options to login, I guess you need to have a look to the UserGroupInformation.java source code (release 0.23.1 link: http://bit.ly/NVzBKL). The private class HadoopConfiguration line 347 is of major interest in our case. Another point is that I did not find any easy way to prompt the user for a password at runtim using the actual hadoop API. It appears to be somehow hardcoded in the UserGroupInformation singleton. I guess it could be nice to have a new function to give to the UserGroupInformation an authenticated 'Subject' which could override all default configurations. If someone have better ideas it could be nice to discuss on it as well. BR, Ivan 2012/7/1 Tony Dean <tony.d...@sas.com> > Hi, > > The security documentation specifies how to test a secure cluster by > using kinit and thus adding the Kerberos principal TGT to the ticket > cache in which the hadoop client code uses to acquire service tickets > for use in the cluster. > What if I created an application that used the hadoop API to > communicate with hdfs and/or mapred protocols, is there a programmatic > way to inform hadoop to use a particular Kerberos principal name with > a keytab that contains its password key? I didn't see a way to > integrate with JAAS KrbLoginModule. > I was thinking that if I could inject a callbackHandler, I could pass > the principal name and the KrbLoginModule already has options to > specify keytab. > Is this something that is possible? Or is this just not the right way > to do things? > > I read about impersonation where authentication is performed with a > system user such as "oozie" and then it just impersonates other users > so that permissions are based on the impersonated user instead of the > system user. > > Please help me understand my options for executing hadoop tasks in a > multi-tenant application. > > Thank you! > > > -- Ivan Frain 11, route de Grenade 31530 Saint-Paul-sur-Save mobile: +33 (0)6 52 52 47 07
