I agree. If the authentication mechanism needs more information, the extension mechanism needs to indicate it.
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Josh Elser <[email protected]> wrote: > % accumulo shell -u root - > 26 17:08:35,072 [impl.**DefaultFileSystemManager] INFO : Using > "/tmp/foobar" as temporary files store. > Enter password - the password for the principal: *********************** > Enter principal - option field to provide the principal, mostly used for > better debug statements: > > This is new to me. Seems... a little strange to get prompted for something > that will give me better debug statements. Actually, to be honest, I have > no idea what that even means or why I would care when I want to just open > the shell. > > Can anyone give an explanation as to what this is actually doing? Is it > something that we want to prompt for the user for all the time? > > I could see this raising a lot of confusion for the normal ZooKeeper > authentication mechanism. >
