Re: hadoop security API (repost)
Hi Tony, I am currently working on this to access HDFS securely and programmaticaly. What I have found so far may help even if I am not 100% sure this is the right way to proceed. If you have already obtained a TGT from the kinit command, hadoop library will locate it automatically if the name of the ticket cache corresponds to default location. On Linux it is located /tmp/krb5cc_uid-number. For example, with my linux user hdfs, I get a TGT for hadoop user 'ivan' meaning you can impersonate ivan from hdfs linux user: -- hdfs@mitkdc:~$ klist Ticket cache: FILE:/tmp/krb5cc_10003 Default principal: i...@hadoop.lan Valid startingExpires Service principal 02/07/2012 13:59 02/07/2012 23:59 krbtgt/hadoop@hadoop.lan renew until 03/07/2012 13:59 --- Then, you just have to set the right security options in your hadoop client in java and the identity will be i...@hadoop.lan for our example. In my tests, I only use HDFS and here a snippet of code to have access to a secure hdfs cluster assuming the previous TGT (ivan's impersonation): val conf: HdfsConfiguration = new HdfsConfiguration() conf.set(CommonConfigurationKeysPublic.HADOOP_SECURITY_AUTHENTICATION, kerberos) conf.set(CommonConfigurationKeysPublic.HADOOP_SECURITY_AUTHORIZATION, true) conf.set(DFSConfigKeys.DFS_NAMENODE_USER_NAME_KEY, serverPrincipal) UserGroupInformation.setConfiguration(conf) val fs = FileSystem.get(new URI(hdfsUri), conf) Using this 'fs' is a handler to access hdfs securely as user 'ivan' even if ivan does not appear in the hadoop client code. Anyway, I also see two other options: * Setting the KRB5CCNAME environment variable to point to the right ticketCache file * Specifying the keytab file you want to use from the UserGroupInformation singleton API: UserGroupInformation.loginUserFromKeytab(user, keytabFile) If you want to understand the auth process and the different options to login, I guess you need to have a look to the UserGroupInformation.java source code (release 0.23.1 link: http://bit.ly/NVzBKL). The private class HadoopConfiguration line 347 is of major interest in our case. Another point is that I did not find any easy way to prompt the user for a password at runtim using the actual hadoop API. It appears to be somehow hardcoded in the UserGroupInformation singleton. I guess it could be nice to have a new function to give to the UserGroupInformation an authenticated 'Subject' which could override all default configurations. If someone have better ideas it could be nice to discuss on it as well. BR, Ivan 2012/7/1 Tony Dean tony.d...@sas.com Hi, The security documentation specifies how to test a secure cluster by using kinit and thus adding the Kerberos principal TGT to the ticket cache in which the hadoop client code uses to acquire service tickets for use in the cluster. What if I created an application that used the hadoop API to communicate with hdfs and/or mapred protocols, is there a programmatic way to inform hadoop to use a particular Kerberos principal name with a keytab that contains its password key? I didn't see a way to integrate with JAAS KrbLoginModule. I was thinking that if I could inject a callbackHandler, I could pass the principal name and the KrbLoginModule already has options to specify keytab. Is this something that is possible? Or is this just not the right way to do things? I read about impersonation where authentication is performed with a system user such as oozie and then it just impersonates other users so that permissions are based on the impersonated user instead of the system user. Please help me understand my options for executing hadoop tasks in a multi-tenant application. Thank you! -- Ivan Frain 11, route de Grenade 31530 Saint-Paul-sur-Save mobile: +33 (0)6 52 52 47 07
RE: hadoop security API (repost)
Yes, but this will not work in a multi-tenant environment. I need to be able to create a Kerberos TGT per execution thread. I was hoping through JAAS that I could inject the name of the current principal and authenticate against it. I'm sure there is a best practice for hadoop/hbase client API authentication, just not sure what it is. Thank you for your comment. The solution may well be associated with the UserGroupInformation class. Hopefully, other ideas will come from this thread. Thanks. -Tony -Original Message- From: Ivan Frain [mailto:ivan.fr...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 8:14 AM To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: hadoop security API (repost) Hi Tony, I am currently working on this to access HDFS securely and programmaticaly. What I have found so far may help even if I am not 100% sure this is the right way to proceed. If you have already obtained a TGT from the kinit command, hadoop library will locate it automatically if the name of the ticket cache corresponds to default location. On Linux it is located /tmp/krb5cc_uid-number. For example, with my linux user hdfs, I get a TGT for hadoop user 'ivan' meaning you can impersonate ivan from hdfs linux user: -- hdfs@mitkdc:~$ klist Ticket cache: FILE:/tmp/krb5cc_10003 Default principal: i...@hadoop.lan Valid startingExpires Service principal 02/07/2012 13:59 02/07/2012 23:59 krbtgt/hadoop@hadoop.lan renew until 03/07/2012 13:59 --- Then, you just have to set the right security options in your hadoop client in java and the identity will be i...@hadoop.lan for our example. In my tests, I only use HDFS and here a snippet of code to have access to a secure hdfs cluster assuming the previous TGT (ivan's impersonation): val conf: HdfsConfiguration = new HdfsConfiguration() conf.set(CommonConfigurationKeysPublic.HADOOP_SECURITY_AUTHENTICATION, kerberos) conf.set(CommonConfigurationKeysPublic.HADOOP_SECURITY_AUTHORIZATION, true) conf.set(DFSConfigKeys.DFS_NAMENODE_USER_NAME_KEY, serverPrincipal) UserGroupInformation.setConfiguration(conf) val fs = FileSystem.get(new URI(hdfsUri), conf) Using this 'fs' is a handler to access hdfs securely as user 'ivan' even if ivan does not appear in the hadoop client code. Anyway, I also see two other options: * Setting the KRB5CCNAME environment variable to point to the right ticketCache file * Specifying the keytab file you want to use from the UserGroupInformation singleton API: UserGroupInformation.loginUserFromKeytab(user, keytabFile) If you want to understand the auth process and the different options to login, I guess you need to have a look to the UserGroupInformation.java source code (release 0.23.1 link: http://bit.ly/NVzBKL). The private class HadoopConfiguration line 347 is of major interest in our case. Another point is that I did not find any easy way to prompt the user for a password at runtim using the actual hadoop API. It appears to be somehow hardcoded in the UserGroupInformation singleton. I guess it could be nice to have a new function to give to the UserGroupInformation an authenticated 'Subject' which could override all default configurations. If someone have better ideas it could be nice to discuss on it as well. BR, Ivan 2012/7/1 Tony Dean tony.d...@sas.com Hi, The security documentation specifies how to test a secure cluster by using kinit and thus adding the Kerberos principal TGT to the ticket cache in which the hadoop client code uses to acquire service tickets for use in the cluster. What if I created an application that used the hadoop API to communicate with hdfs and/or mapred protocols, is there a programmatic way to inform hadoop to use a particular Kerberos principal name with a keytab that contains its password key? I didn't see a way to integrate with JAAS KrbLoginModule. I was thinking that if I could inject a callbackHandler, I could pass the principal name and the KrbLoginModule already has options to specify keytab. Is this something that is possible? Or is this just not the right way to do things? I read about impersonation where authentication is performed with a system user such as oozie and then it just impersonates other users so that permissions are based on the impersonated user instead of the system user. Please help me understand my options for executing hadoop tasks in a multi-tenant application. Thank you! -- Ivan Frain 11, route de Grenade 31530 Saint-Paul-sur-Save mobile: +33 (0)6 52 52 47 07
Re: hadoop security API (repost)
Tony, If you are doing a server app that interacts with the cluster on behalf of different users (like Ooize, as you mentioned in your email), then you should use the proxyuser capabilities of Hadoop. * Configure user MYSERVERUSER as proxyuser in Hadoop core-site.xml (this requires 2 properties settings, HOSTS and GROUPS). * Run your server app as MYSERVERUSER and have a Kerberos principal MYSERVERUSER/MYSERVERHOST * Initialize your server app loading the MYSERVERUSER/MYSERVERHOST keytab * Use the UGI.doAs() to create JobClient/Filesystem instances using the user you want to do something on behalf * Keep in mind that all the users you need to do something on behalf should be valid Unix users in the cluster * If those users need direct access to the cluster, they'll have to be also defined in in the KDC user database. Hope this helps. Thx On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 6:22 AM, Tony Dean tony.d...@sas.com wrote: Yes, but this will not work in a multi-tenant environment. I need to be able to create a Kerberos TGT per execution thread. I was hoping through JAAS that I could inject the name of the current principal and authenticate against it. I'm sure there is a best practice for hadoop/hbase client API authentication, just not sure what it is. Thank you for your comment. The solution may well be associated with the UserGroupInformation class. Hopefully, other ideas will come from this thread. Thanks. -Tony -Original Message- From: Ivan Frain [mailto:ivan.fr...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 8:14 AM To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: hadoop security API (repost) Hi Tony, I am currently working on this to access HDFS securely and programmaticaly. What I have found so far may help even if I am not 100% sure this is the right way to proceed. If you have already obtained a TGT from the kinit command, hadoop library will locate it automatically if the name of the ticket cache corresponds to default location. On Linux it is located /tmp/krb5cc_uid-number. For example, with my linux user hdfs, I get a TGT for hadoop user 'ivan' meaning you can impersonate ivan from hdfs linux user: -- hdfs@mitkdc:~$ klist Ticket cache: FILE:/tmp/krb5cc_10003 Default principal: i...@hadoop.lan Valid startingExpires Service principal 02/07/2012 13:59 02/07/2012 23:59 krbtgt/hadoop@hadoop.lan renew until 03/07/2012 13:59 --- Then, you just have to set the right security options in your hadoop client in java and the identity will be i...@hadoop.lan for our example. In my tests, I only use HDFS and here a snippet of code to have access to a secure hdfs cluster assuming the previous TGT (ivan's impersonation): val conf: HdfsConfiguration = new HdfsConfiguration() conf.set(CommonConfigurationKeysPublic.HADOOP_SECURITY_AUTHENTICATION, kerberos) conf.set(CommonConfigurationKeysPublic.HADOOP_SECURITY_AUTHORIZATION, true) conf.set(DFSConfigKeys.DFS_NAMENODE_USER_NAME_KEY, serverPrincipal) UserGroupInformation.setConfiguration(conf) val fs = FileSystem.get(new URI(hdfsUri), conf) Using this 'fs' is a handler to access hdfs securely as user 'ivan' even if ivan does not appear in the hadoop client code. Anyway, I also see two other options: * Setting the KRB5CCNAME environment variable to point to the right ticketCache file * Specifying the keytab file you want to use from the UserGroupInformation singleton API: UserGroupInformation.loginUserFromKeytab(user, keytabFile) If you want to understand the auth process and the different options to login, I guess you need to have a look to the UserGroupInformation.java source code (release 0.23.1 link: http://bit.ly/NVzBKL). The private class HadoopConfiguration line 347 is of major interest in our case. Another point is that I did not find any easy way to prompt the user for a password at runtim using the actual hadoop API. It appears to be somehow hardcoded in the UserGroupInformation singleton. I guess it could be nice to have a new function to give to the UserGroupInformation an authenticated 'Subject' which could override all default configurations. If someone have better ideas it could be nice to discuss on it as well. BR, Ivan 2012/7/1 Tony Dean tony.d...@sas.com Hi, The security documentation specifies how to test a secure cluster by using kinit and thus adding the Kerberos principal TGT to the ticket cache in which the hadoop client code uses to acquire service tickets for use in the cluster. What if I created an application that used the hadoop API to communicate with hdfs and/or mapred protocols, is there a programmatic way to inform hadoop to use a particular Kerberos principal name with a keytab that contains its password
RE: hadoop security API (repost)
Alejandro, Thanks for the reply. My intent is to also be able to scan/get/put hbase tables under a specified identity as well. What options do I have to perform the same multi-tenant authorization for these operations? I have posted this to hbase users distribution list as well, but thought you might have insight. Since hbase security authentication is so dependent upon hadoop, it would be nice if your suggestion worked for hbase as well. Getting back to your suggestion... when configuring hadoop.proxyuser.myserveruser.hosts, host1 would be where I'm making the ugi.doAs() privileged call and host2 is the hadoop namenode? Also, an another option, is there not a way for an application to pass hadoop/hbase authentication the name of a Kerberos principal to use? In this case, no proxy, just execute as the designated user. Thanks. -Tony -Original Message- From: Alejandro Abdelnur [mailto:t...@cloudera.com] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 11:40 AM To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: hadoop security API (repost) Tony, If you are doing a server app that interacts with the cluster on behalf of different users (like Ooize, as you mentioned in your email), then you should use the proxyuser capabilities of Hadoop. * Configure user MYSERVERUSER as proxyuser in Hadoop core-site.xml (this requires 2 properties settings, HOSTS and GROUPS). * Run your server app as MYSERVERUSER and have a Kerberos principal MYSERVERUSER/MYSERVERHOST * Initialize your server app loading the MYSERVERUSER/MYSERVERHOST keytab * Use the UGI.doAs() to create JobClient/Filesystem instances using the user you want to do something on behalf * Keep in mind that all the users you need to do something on behalf should be valid Unix users in the cluster * If those users need direct access to the cluster, they'll have to be also defined in in the KDC user database. Hope this helps. Thx On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 6:22 AM, Tony Dean tony.d...@sas.com wrote: Yes, but this will not work in a multi-tenant environment. I need to be able to create a Kerberos TGT per execution thread. I was hoping through JAAS that I could inject the name of the current principal and authenticate against it. I'm sure there is a best practice for hadoop/hbase client API authentication, just not sure what it is. Thank you for your comment. The solution may well be associated with the UserGroupInformation class. Hopefully, other ideas will come from this thread. Thanks. -Tony -Original Message- From: Ivan Frain [mailto:ivan.fr...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 8:14 AM To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: hadoop security API (repost) Hi Tony, I am currently working on this to access HDFS securely and programmaticaly. What I have found so far may help even if I am not 100% sure this is the right way to proceed. If you have already obtained a TGT from the kinit command, hadoop library will locate it automatically if the name of the ticket cache corresponds to default location. On Linux it is located /tmp/krb5cc_uid-number. For example, with my linux user hdfs, I get a TGT for hadoop user 'ivan' meaning you can impersonate ivan from hdfs linux user: -- hdfs@mitkdc:~$ klist Ticket cache: FILE:/tmp/krb5cc_10003 Default principal: i...@hadoop.lan Valid startingExpires Service principal 02/07/2012 13:59 02/07/2012 23:59 krbtgt/hadoop@hadoop.lan renew until 03/07/2012 13:59 --- Then, you just have to set the right security options in your hadoop client in java and the identity will be i...@hadoop.lan for our example. In my tests, I only use HDFS and here a snippet of code to have access to a secure hdfs cluster assuming the previous TGT (ivan's impersonation): val conf: HdfsConfiguration = new HdfsConfiguration() conf.set(CommonConfigurationKeysPublic.HADOOP_SECURITY_AUTHENTICATION, kerberos) conf.set(CommonConfigurationKeysPublic.HADOOP_SECURITY_AUTHORIZATION, true) conf.set(DFSConfigKeys.DFS_NAMENODE_USER_NAME_KEY, serverPrincipal) UserGroupInformation.setConfiguration(conf) val fs = FileSystem.get(new URI(hdfsUri), conf) Using this 'fs' is a handler to access hdfs securely as user 'ivan' even if ivan does not appear in the hadoop client code. Anyway, I also see two other options: * Setting the KRB5CCNAME environment variable to point to the right ticketCache file * Specifying the keytab file you want to use from the UserGroupInformation singleton API: UserGroupInformation.loginUserFromKeytab(user, keytabFile) If you want to understand the auth process and the different options to login, I guess you need to have a look to the UserGroupInformation.java source code (release 0.23.1 link: http
Re: hadoop security API (repost)
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Tony Dean tony.d...@sas.com wrote: Alejandro, Thanks for the reply. My intent is to also be able to scan/get/put hbase tables under a specified identity as well. What options do I have to perform the same multi-tenant authorization for these operations? I have posted this to hbase users distribution list as well, but thought you might have insight. Since hbase security authentication is so dependent upon hadoop, it would be nice if your suggestion worked for hbase as well. Getting back to your suggestion... when configuring hadoop.proxyuser.myserveruser.hosts, host1 would be where I'm making the ugi.doAs() privileged call and host2 is the hadoop namenode? host1 in that case. Also, an another option, is there not a way for an application to pass hadoop/hbase authentication the name of a Kerberos principal to use? In this case, no proxy, just execute as the designated user. You could do that, but that means your app will have to have keytabs for all the users want to act as. Proxyuser will be much easier to manage. Maybe getting proxyuser support in hbase if it is not there yet Thanks. -Tony -Original Message- From: Alejandro Abdelnur [mailto:t...@cloudera.com] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 11:40 AM To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: hadoop security API (repost) Tony, If you are doing a server app that interacts with the cluster on behalf of different users (like Ooize, as you mentioned in your email), then you should use the proxyuser capabilities of Hadoop. * Configure user MYSERVERUSER as proxyuser in Hadoop core-site.xml (this requires 2 properties settings, HOSTS and GROUPS). * Run your server app as MYSERVERUSER and have a Kerberos principal MYSERVERUSER/MYSERVERHOST * Initialize your server app loading the MYSERVERUSER/MYSERVERHOST keytab * Use the UGI.doAs() to create JobClient/Filesystem instances using the user you want to do something on behalf * Keep in mind that all the users you need to do something on behalf should be valid Unix users in the cluster * If those users need direct access to the cluster, they'll have to be also defined in in the KDC user database. Hope this helps. Thx On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 6:22 AM, Tony Dean tony.d...@sas.com wrote: Yes, but this will not work in a multi-tenant environment. I need to be able to create a Kerberos TGT per execution thread. I was hoping through JAAS that I could inject the name of the current principal and authenticate against it. I'm sure there is a best practice for hadoop/hbase client API authentication, just not sure what it is. Thank you for your comment. The solution may well be associated with the UserGroupInformation class. Hopefully, other ideas will come from this thread. Thanks. -Tony -Original Message- From: Ivan Frain [mailto:ivan.fr...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 8:14 AM To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: hadoop security API (repost) Hi Tony, I am currently working on this to access HDFS securely and programmaticaly. What I have found so far may help even if I am not 100% sure this is the right way to proceed. If you have already obtained a TGT from the kinit command, hadoop library will locate it automatically if the name of the ticket cache corresponds to default location. On Linux it is located /tmp/krb5cc_uid-number. For example, with my linux user hdfs, I get a TGT for hadoop user 'ivan' meaning you can impersonate ivan from hdfs linux user: -- hdfs@mitkdc:~$ klist Ticket cache: FILE:/tmp/krb5cc_10003 Default principal: i...@hadoop.lan Valid startingExpires Service principal 02/07/2012 13:59 02/07/2012 23:59 krbtgt/hadoop@hadoop.lan renew until 03/07/2012 13:59 --- Then, you just have to set the right security options in your hadoop client in java and the identity will be i...@hadoop.lan for our example. In my tests, I only use HDFS and here a snippet of code to have access to a secure hdfs cluster assuming the previous TGT (ivan's impersonation): val conf: HdfsConfiguration = new HdfsConfiguration() conf.set(CommonConfigurationKeysPublic.HADOOP_SECURITY_AUTHENTICATION, kerberos) conf.set(CommonConfigurationKeysPublic.HADOOP_SECURITY_AUTHORIZATION, true) conf.set(DFSConfigKeys.DFS_NAMENODE_USER_NAME_KEY, serverPrincipal) UserGroupInformation.setConfiguration(conf) val fs = FileSystem.get(new URI(hdfsUri), conf) Using this 'fs' is a handler to access hdfs securely as user 'ivan' even if ivan does not appear in the hadoop client code. Anyway, I also see two other options: * Setting the KRB5CCNAME environment variable to point to the right ticketCache file * Specifying the keytab
Re: hadoop security API (repost)
You could do that, but that means your app will have to have keytabs for all the users want to act as. Proxyuser will be much easier to manage. Maybe getting proxyuser support in hbase if it is not there yet I don't think proxy auth is what the OP is after. Do I have that right? Implies the presence of a node somewhere to act as the proxy. For HBase, there is https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5050 which would enable proxyuser support via the REST gateway as simple follow on work. On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Alejandro Abdelnur t...@cloudera.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Tony Dean tony.d...@sas.com wrote: Alejandro, Thanks for the reply. My intent is to also be able to scan/get/put hbase tables under a specified identity as well. What options do I have to perform the same multi-tenant authorization for these operations? I have posted this to hbase users distribution list as well, but thought you might have insight. Since hbase security authentication is so dependent upon hadoop, it would be nice if your suggestion worked for hbase as well. Getting back to your suggestion... when configuring hadoop.proxyuser.myserveruser.hosts, host1 would be where I'm making the ugi.doAs() privileged call and host2 is the hadoop namenode? host1 in that case. Also, an another option, is there not a way for an application to pass hadoop/hbase authentication the name of a Kerberos principal to use? In this case, no proxy, just execute as the designated user. You could do that, but that means your app will have to have keytabs for all the users want to act as. Proxyuser will be much easier to manage. Maybe getting proxyuser support in hbase if it is not there yet Thanks. -Tony -Original Message- From: Alejandro Abdelnur [mailto:t...@cloudera.com] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 11:40 AM To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: hadoop security API (repost) Tony, If you are doing a server app that interacts with the cluster on behalf of different users (like Ooize, as you mentioned in your email), then you should use the proxyuser capabilities of Hadoop. * Configure user MYSERVERUSER as proxyuser in Hadoop core-site.xml (this requires 2 properties settings, HOSTS and GROUPS). * Run your server app as MYSERVERUSER and have a Kerberos principal MYSERVERUSER/MYSERVERHOST * Initialize your server app loading the MYSERVERUSER/MYSERVERHOST keytab * Use the UGI.doAs() to create JobClient/Filesystem instances using the user you want to do something on behalf * Keep in mind that all the users you need to do something on behalf should be valid Unix users in the cluster * If those users need direct access to the cluster, they'll have to be also defined in in the KDC user database. Hope this helps. Thx On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 6:22 AM, Tony Dean tony.d...@sas.com wrote: Yes, but this will not work in a multi-tenant environment. I need to be able to create a Kerberos TGT per execution thread. I was hoping through JAAS that I could inject the name of the current principal and authenticate against it. I'm sure there is a best practice for hadoop/hbase client API authentication, just not sure what it is. Thank you for your comment. The solution may well be associated with the UserGroupInformation class. Hopefully, other ideas will come from this thread. Thanks. -Tony -Original Message- From: Ivan Frain [mailto:ivan.fr...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 8:14 AM To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: hadoop security API (repost) Hi Tony, I am currently working on this to access HDFS securely and programmaticaly. What I have found so far may help even if I am not 100% sure this is the right way to proceed. If you have already obtained a TGT from the kinit command, hadoop library will locate it automatically if the name of the ticket cache corresponds to default location. On Linux it is located /tmp/krb5cc_uid-number. For example, with my linux user hdfs, I get a TGT for hadoop user 'ivan' meaning you can impersonate ivan from hdfs linux user: -- hdfs@mitkdc:~$ klist Ticket cache: FILE:/tmp/krb5cc_10003 Default principal: i...@hadoop.lan Valid startingExpires Service principal 02/07/2012 13:59 02/07/2012 23:59 krbtgt/hadoop@hadoop.lan renew until 03/07/2012 13:59 --- Then, you just have to set the right security options in your hadoop client in java and the identity will be i...@hadoop.lan for our example. In my tests, I only use HDFS and here a snippet of code to have access to a secure hdfs cluster assuming the previous TGT (ivan's impersonation): val conf: HdfsConfiguration = new HdfsConfiguration() conf.set(CommonConfigurationKeysPublic.HADOOP_SECURITY_AUTHENTICATION, kerberos) conf.set
hadoop security API (repost)
Hi, The security documentation specifies how to test a secure cluster by using kinit and thus adding the Kerberos principal TGT to the ticket cache in which the hadoop client code uses to acquire service tickets for use in the cluster. What if I created an application that used the hadoop API to communicate with hdfs and/or mapred protocols, is there a programmatic way to inform hadoop to use a particular Kerberos principal name with a keytab that contains its password key? I didn't see a way to integrate with JAAS KrbLoginModule. I was thinking that if I could inject a callbackHandler, I could pass the principal name and the KrbLoginModule already has options to specify keytab. Is this something that is possible? Or is this just not the right way to do things? I read about impersonation where authentication is performed with a system user such as oozie and then it just impersonates other users so that permissions are based on the impersonated user instead of the system user. Please help me understand my options for executing hadoop tasks in a multi-tenant application. Thank you!
