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Till Rohrmann commented on FLINK-5364:
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Hi [~eronwright], I think you're right and we should definitely try to fix it
for the final 1.2 release. Great that you're looking into it.
Do you want to open the PR against the Flink Github repository? I guess we can
already make a first round of review work.
> Rework JAAS configuration to support user-supplied entries
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: FLINK-5364
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-5364
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Cluster Management
> Reporter: Eron Wright
> Assignee: Eron Wright
> Priority: Critical
> Labels: kerberos, security
>
> Recent issues (see linked) have brought to light a critical deficiency in the
> handling of JAAS configuration.
> 1. the MapR distribution relies on an explicit JAAS conf, rather than
> in-memory conf used by stock Hadoop.
> 2. the ZK/Kafka/Hadoop security configuration is supposed to be independent
> (one can enable each element separately) but isn't.
> Perhaps we should rework the JAAS conf code to merge any user-supplied
> configuration with our defaults, rather than using an all-or-nothing
> approach.
> We should also address some recent regressions:
> 1. The HadoopSecurityContext should be installed regardless of auth mode, to
> login with UserGroupInformation, which:
> - handles the HADOOP_USER_NAME variable.
> - installs an OS-specific user principal (from UnixLoginModule etc.)
> unrelated to Kerberos.
> - picks up the HDFS/HBASE delegation tokens.
> 2. Fix the use of alternative authentication methods - delegation tokens and
> Kerberos ticket cache.
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