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Goden Yao edited comment on HAWQ-1036 at 9/6/16 6:54 PM: --------------------------------------------------------- this request has nothing to do with database objects privilege management or ranger integration. Alastair‘s attached text file well elaborated on the implementation for this JIRA. I'll make sure I describe that in the JIRA description as well. was (Author: godenyao): this request has nothing to do with database objects privilege management or ranger integration. I'll post a detailed discussion with Alastair before. > Support user impersonation in PXF for external tables > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HAWQ-1036 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HAWQ-1036 > Project: Apache HAWQ > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: PXF, Security > Reporter: Alastair "Bell" Turner > Assignee: Goden Yao > Priority: Critical > Fix For: backlog > > Attachments: HAWQ_Impersonation_rationale.txt > > > Currently HAWQ executes all queries as the user running the HAWQ process or > the user running the PXF process, not as the user who issued the query via > ODBC/JDBC/... This restricts the options available for integrating with > existing security defined in HDFS, Hive, etc. > Impersonation provides an alternative Ranger integration (as discussed in > HAWQ-256 ) for consistent security across HAWQ, HDFS, Hive... -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)