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Haohui Mai commented on HDFS-5796:
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WebHDFS is designed to be a gateway for all third-party services where SPNEGO
might not be available.
In my opinion WebHDFS should support the same authentication mechanisms as the
one the web UI supports.
> The file system browser in the namenode UI requires SPNEGO.
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> Key: HDFS-5796
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-5796
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 2.4.0
> Reporter: Kihwal Lee
> Priority: Critical
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> 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.
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