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Venkatesh S commented on HIVE-842:
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> * 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
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> 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
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> This issue deals with the authentication (user name,password) infrastructure.
> Not the authorization components that specify what a user should be able to
> do.
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