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Elliott Clark commented on HBASE-14700: --------------------------------------- +1 from me. Looks good to go. > Support a "permissive" mode for secure clusters to allow "simple" auth clients > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HBASE-14700 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-14700 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: security > Reporter: Gary Helmling > Assignee: Gary Helmling > Fix For: 2.0.0 > > Attachments: HBASE-14700-v2.patch, HBASE-14700-v3.patch, > HBASE-14700.patch > > > When implementing HBase security for an existing cluster, it can be useful to > support mixed secure and insecure clients while all client configurations are > migrated over to secure authentication. > We currently have an option to allow secure clients to fallback to simple > auth against insecure clusters. By providing an analogous setting for > servers, we would allow a phased rollout of security: > # First, security can be enabled on the cluster servers, with the > "permissive" mode enabled > # Clients can be converting to using secure authentication incrementally > # The server audit logs allow identification of clients still using simple > auth to connect > # Finally, when sufficient clients have been converted to secure operation, > the server-side "permissive" mode can be removed, allowing completely secure > operation. > Obviously with this enabled, there is no effective access control, but this > would still be a useful tool to enable a smooth operational rollout of > security. Permissive mode would of course be disabled by default. Enabling > it should provide a big scary warning in the logs on startup, and possibly be > flagged on relevant UIs. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)