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Jun Rao commented on KAFKA-1686:
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[~sriharsha], yes, I was referring to integration with group management in
services like ldap or active directory. So, you are saying that the principal
type in a client session should always be USER?
> Implement SASL/Kerberos
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> Key: KAFKA-1686
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1686
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: security
> Affects Versions: 0.8.2.1
> Reporter: Jay Kreps
> Assignee: Sriharsha Chintalapani
> Fix For: 0.8.3
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> Implement SASL/Kerberos authentication.
> To do this we will need to introduce a new SASLRequest and SASLResponse pair
> to the client protocol. This request and response will each have only a
> single byte[] field and will be used to handle the SASL challenge/response
> cycle. Doing this will initialize the SaslServer instance and associate it
> with the session in a manner similar to KAFKA-1684.
> When using integrity or encryption mechanisms with SASL we will need to wrap
> and unwrap bytes as in KAFKA-1684 so the same interface that covers the
> SSLEngine will need to also cover the SaslServer instance.
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