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Haohui Mai commented on HDFS-5796: ---------------------------------- bq. "Sure, I live in a glass house, but I have security and privacy because there is a lock on the door." Can't agree more. I have a strong preferences on not going back to the dr.who approach from a security point of view. > The file system browser in the namenode UI requires SPNEGO. > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-5796 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-5796 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 2.5.0 > Reporter: Kihwal Lee > Assignee: Arun Suresh > Priority: Blocker > Attachments: HDFS-5796.1.patch, HDFS-5796.1.patch, HDFS-5796.2.patch, > HDFS-5796.3.patch, HDFS-5796.3.patch > > > After HDFS-5382, the browser makes webhdfs REST calls directly, requiring > SPNEGO to work between user's browser and namenode. This won't work if the > cluster's security infrastructure is isolated from the regular network. > Moreover, SPNEGO is not supposed to be required for user-facing web pages. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)