I looked at this a bit more and I see a container_tokens file in spark directory. Does this contain the credentials where are added by addCredentials? Is this file accessible to the spark executors?
It looks like just a clear text protobuf file. https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/82cb2a6497caa7c5e693aa41ad18e92f1c7eb16a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/Credentials.java#L221 This means that anyone with access to the user can read credentials from any other user. Correct? On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Blaze Spinnaker <blazespinna...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We are submitting critical UserGroupInformation credentials and wanted to > know how these are protected in Spark Cluster. > > Questions: > > Are the credentials persisted to disk at any point? If so, where? > If they are persisted, are they encrypted? Or just obfuscated? is the > encryption key accessible? > Are they only protected by file permissions? > > Are they only in memory? > > How would you securely propagate UGI / credentials to spark executors? > > Regards, > > Tim >