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Venkatesh S commented on HIVE-842: ---------------------------------- > * Do Hive tasks ever need to authenticate to the metastore? If so, we > will have to build a delegation token system into Hive. I learnt it from Alan and Pradeep that Howl uses the commit task to talk to the metastore. Hence we'll have to build the delegation token system. > Authentication Infrastructure for Hive > -------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-842 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-842 > Project: Hadoop Hive > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Server Infrastructure > Reporter: Edward Capriolo > Assignee: Todd Lipcon > Attachments: HiveSecurityThoughts.pdf > > > This issue deals with the authentication (user name,password) infrastructure. > Not the authorization components that specify what a user should be able to > do. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.