Github user denalex commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-hawq/pull/1245#discussion_r119684260
--- Diff: ranger-plugin/conf/ranger-servicedef-hawq.json ---
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@
"name": "authentication",
"type": "enum",
"subType": "authType",
- "mandatory": false,
+ "mandatory": true,
--- End diff --
We have decided a while ago to not touch pg_hba.conf in Ambari, because
users might have their own entries there and this is a very sensitive file. A
viable approach might've been to manage all entries in pg_hba.conf via Ambari,
but that required extra work.
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