One more thing: we are using the PASSWORD config type to avoid exposing
passwords. This will also make it harder to debug issues with the JAAS
config though, it would be good to mention this drawback in the KIP.

Ismael

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> wrote:

> I'm very late to this, but better late than never, I guess. I am +1 on
> this because it improves on the status quo, satisfies a real need and is
> simple to implement.
>
> Having said that, I'd also like to state that it's a bit of a shame that
> we are doubling down on the JAAS config format. It is a peculiar format and
> in the Kerberos case (one of the common usages), it requires users to
> provide different configs depending on the Java implementation being used.
> It would be nice if we looked into abstracting some of this to make users'
> lives easier. Looking at the Hadoop codebase, it looks like they try to do
> that although I don't know how well it worked out in practice.
>
> Ismael
>
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Rajini Sivaram <
> rajinisiva...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> KIP-85 vote has passed with 4 binding (Harsha, Gwen, Jason, Jun) and 4
>> non-binding (Mickael, Jim, Edo, me) votes.
>>
>> Thank you all for your votes and comments. I will update the KIP page and
>> rebase the PR.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Rajini
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Edoardo Comar <eco...@uk.ibm.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > +1 great KIP
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>> > Edoardo Comar
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>> > From:   Rajini Sivaram <rajinisiva...@googlemail.com>
>> > To:     dev@kafka.apache.org
>> > Date:   26/10/2016 16:27
>> > Subject:        [VOTE] KIP-85: Dynamic JAAS configuration for Kafka
>> > clients
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I would like to initiate the voting process for KIP-85: Dynamic JAAS
>> > configuration for Kafka Clients:
>> >
>> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-85%3A+
>> Dynamic+JAAS+
>> > configuration+for+Kafka+clients
>> >
>> >
>> > This KIP enables Java clients to connect to Kafka using SASL without a
>> > physical jaas.conf file. This will also be useful to configure multiple
>> > KafkaClient login contexts when multiple users are supported within a
>> JVM.
>> >
>> > Thank you...
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Rajini
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Rajini
>>
>
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