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Kousuke Saruta commented on HDFS-4983: -------------------------------------- Hi Harsh, I think the reason is that USER_PATTERN_DEFAULT field in UserProvider is set to "^[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9._-]*[$]?$". But some authentication systems like shadow allow less restricted user name. > Numeric usernames do not work with WebHDFS FS > --------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-4983 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4983 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: webhdfs > Affects Versions: 2.0.0-alpha > Reporter: Harsh J > > Per the file > hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/web/resources/UserParam.java, > the DOMAIN pattern is set to: {{^[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9._-]*[$]?$}}. > Given this, using a username such as "123" seems to fail for some reason > (tried on insecure setup): > {code} > [123@host-1 ~]$ whoami > 123 > [123@host-1 ~]$ hadoop fs -fs webhdfs://host-2.domain.com -ls / > -ls: Invalid value: "123" does not belong to the domain > ^[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9._-]*[$]?$ > Usage: hadoop fs [generic options] -ls [-d] [-h] [-R] [<path> ...] > {code} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira