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Kihwal Lee updated HDFS-11053:
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       Resolution: Fixed
     Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
    Fix Version/s: 3.0.0-alpha2
                   2.7.4
           Status: Resolved  (was: Patch Available)

Thanks for the reviews. I've committed it to trunk through branch-2.7.

> Unnecessary superuser check in versionRequest()
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-11053
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-11053
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: namenode, security
>            Reporter: Kihwal Lee
>            Assignee: Kihwal Lee
>             Fix For: 2.7.4, 3.0.0-alpha2
>
>         Attachments: HDFS-11053.patch
>
>
> The {{versionRequest()}} call does not return any sensitive information.  It 
> is mainly used for sanity checks.   The presence of 
> {{checkSuperuserPrivilege()}} forces users to run datanode as a hdfs 
> superuser.
> In secure setup, a keytab obtained from a compromised datanode can allow the 
> intruder to gain hdfs superuser privilege.  We should allow datanodes to be 
> run as non-hdfs-superuser by removing {{checkSuperuserPrivilege()}} from 
> {{versionRequest()}}.



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