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Josh Elser commented on ACCUMULO-2907:
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bq. Given this rarity, I'm inclined to go ahead and merge your pull request in
to remove the message as-is, on the argument that there's no reason to confuse
most people, because the message might be useful to some people who have
customized their authentication system. I would expect that anybody customizing
their authentication system would already understand that this particular
prompt isn't useful to them.
+1 to catering to the common case. However, I'm not a fan of this change making
the Kerberos authentication support now be second class.
Kerberos is deployed *nearly everywhere* in the commercial space when it comes
to Hadoop and friends. IMO, inspecting the configuration and suppressing the
message based on the value of the authenticator configuration key is the ideal
"easy" solution.
> Invalidate "this may not be applicable for your security setup" warning from
> initialize
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> Key: ACCUMULO-2907
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-2907
> Project: Accumulo
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Josh Elser
> Assignee: Mark Owens
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: newbie
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> The warning that is printed about setting a root password may not be
> applicable for your security setup is invalid because the plugable
> authentication modules do not manage the root user and it is expected that
> there will always be a local root user with a password.
> Remove the warning.
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