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Christopher Tubbs commented on ACCUMULO-1028: --------------------------------------------- What issues of token serialization/deserialization would be introduced by this ticket? > Distinguish the user principal from the authentication token > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: ACCUMULO-1028 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-1028 > Project: Accumulo > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: master, tserver > Reporter: Christopher Tubbs > Fix For: 1.5.0 > > > The user principal is something that uniquely identifies a user. An > authentication token is the item that authenticates the user principal, may > be temporal, and may vary. It is not clear from the implementation of > ACCUMULO-259 that these are separate things, and I think it would benefit the > API to distinguish them. > It could also simplify the API, for users transitioning from the old > authentication stuff to the new authentication stuff, because there would be > a one-to-one mapping with the username/password with which they are familiar: > {code:java} > public Connector getConnector(String username, byte[] password); > {code} > becomes > {code:java} > public <T extends AuthToken> Connector getConnector(Principal userPrincipal, > T authToken); > {code} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira