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Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE commented on HADOOP-2184: ------------------------------------------------ Is it possible to have a situation that a RPC socket is shared by two identities? If yes, then we cannot initialize a socket with someone's ticket. or we have to provide some way to update RPC tickets. > RPC Support for user permissions and authentication. > ---------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-2184 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2184 > Project: Hadoop > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: ipc > Affects Versions: 0.15.0 > Reporter: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE > Assignee: Raghu Angadi > Fix For: 0.16.0 > > > Update 11/13/2007: What is proposed for 0.16.0 : > The client can set a user ticket (as defined in HADOOP-1701) for each > connection and that ticket is made available to RPC calls at the server. The > client can replace the ticket at any time. The main advantage is that rest of > the the client RPCs don't need to be aware of the user tickets. > What RPC would ideally support in future : > In the current version of RPC, there is no authentication or data protection. > We propose to change the RPC framework, so that secure communication is > possible. > The new RPC should: > - Compatible with current RPC > - Allow a pluggable security implementations (see HADOOP-1701) > - Support both secure and non-secure modes. > Here is a rough idea: > - Store security information (e.g. username, keys) in a ticket > - Use the ticket to establish a RPC connection > - Create secure sockets by the (subclass of) SocketFactory corresponding to > the selected security implementations > - Send the data and RPC parameters with the secure sockets > When authentication is supported, the RPC callee should also initialize > caller information during RPC setup and execute the RPC on the caller's > behalf. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.