Github user alopresto commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/452#issuecomment-220464739 @mcgilman thanks for the response above. It feels a little to me like the authorizer has gotten conflated with user and group management tasks. If the authorizer' responsibility is strictly to manage and enforce policy, then we probably want a `UserService` to manage user retrieval, modification, etc. Maybe this is injected into the authorizer to allow various identity provider implementations (LDAP, Kerberos, etc.) to work with various authorizers (Ranger, NiFi internal, etc.) I'm not going to hold up this step with the understanding there are still more design decisions to be made.
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