mahendiran chandrasekar created KAFKA-4611:
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Summary: Support custom authentication mechanism
Key: KAFKA-4611
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-4611
Project: Kafka
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: clients
Affects Versions: 0.10.0.0
Reporter: mahendiran chandrasekar
Currently there are two login mechanisms supported by kafka client.
1) Default Login / Abstract Login which uses JAAS authentication
2) Kerberos Login
Supporting user defined login mechanism's would be nice.
This could be achieved by removing the limitation from
[here](https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/0.10.0/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/common/security/authenticator/LoginManager.java#L44)
... Instead get custom login module implemented by user which implements Login
from the configs and give users the option to implement custom login
mechanism.
I am running into an issue in setting JAAS authentication system property on
all executors of my spark cluster. Having custom mechanism to authorize kafka
would be a good improvement for me
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