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Devaraj Das commented on MAPREDUCE-1307: ---------------------------------------- The default group for the jobs could definitely be the one that the JobTracker thinks about the user's group. I take the point that the mapreduce.job.group default value could be the job owner's default groups. Is that what you are hinting at? > Introduce the concept of Job Permissions > ---------------------------------------- > > Key: MAPREDUCE-1307 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1307 > Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: security > Reporter: Devaraj Das > Fix For: 0.22.0 > > Attachments: 1307-early-1.patch > > > It would be good to define the notion of job permissions analogous to file > permissions. Then the JobTracker can restrict who can "read" (e.g. look at > the job page) or "modify" (e.g. kill) jobs. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.