Hi Jimmy,
HBASE-11349/HBASE-11474 is to authenticate the connection from thrift
server to HBase.
Here by the term thrift clients, I mean clients trying to access HBase
via thrift server.
For example, clients in any unsecure machine will connect to thrift
server port 9090 , and in turn thrift will connect to HBase.
Client -(unauthenticated connect via port 9090) Thrift -
(Kerberos authenticated connection) HBase
As portrayed above, the Thrift will authenticate with HBase using
Kerberos. But clients connecting to thrift server via 9090 do not get
authentictaed
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-Original Message-
From: Jimmy Xiang [mailto:jxi...@cloudera.com]
Sent: 03 September 2014 03:06
To: dev@hbase.apache.org
Subject: Re: Thrift client authentication skipped for HBase thrift server
Kashif,
HBASE-11349/HBASE-11474 is indeed to authenticate Thrift clients using
Kerberos. Is this what you are looking for?
For Thrift server authentication, it is already there. Please refer to the
hbase book
http://hbase.apache.org/book/security.html#hbase.secure.configuration
Section 8.1.4 for more details.
Thanks,
Jimmy
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 11:28 PM, Kashif Jawed Siddiqui kashi...@huawei.com
wrote:
Hi All,
As per current implementation done for
https://issues.apache.org/jira/i#browse/HBASE-11349
https://issues.apache.org/jira/i#browse/HBASE-11474 ,
The authentication mechanism using Kerberos principal for Thrift
server with HBase is perfectly fine.
But for clients communicating to HBase via thrift server does not
handle the security mechanism.
Any unauthenticated client can access HBase via thrift server. The
thrift sever can act as a backdoor entry for skipping the security
authentication.
It will be better if thrift clients can also be authenticated through
some mechanism like Kerberos or IP restriction,etc
Let us discuss on mechanism for thrift client authentication that can
be implemented.
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