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Andrew Purtell edited comment on HBASE-12231 at 10/10/14 11:08 PM: ------------------------------------------------------------------- If doing it this way I think we should default the REST auth mode to the HBase auth setting if a specific REST authentication mode isn't specified in the configuration. The current patch is ok for 0.98 and branch-1 but we might want to do differently in master. was (Author: apurtell): If doing it this way I think we should default the REST auth mode to the HBase auth setting if a specific REST authentication mode isn't specified in the configuration. > REST gateway authentication should be independent of Hadoop/HBase security > configuration. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-12231 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-12231 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: REST > Affects Versions: 0.98.6.1 > Reporter: Aditya Kishore > Assignee: Aditya Kishore > Labels: authentication, security > Attachments: > HBASE-12231-REST-gateway-authentication-should-be-in.patch > > > It is reasonable that a user would want to secure the HBase REST interface > without having to incur the cost of securing the entire HBase/Hadoop > ecosystem. > The current implementation does not allow that and needs to be modified. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)