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Eugene Koontz updated ZOOKEEPER-896:
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Hi Patrick, I would love to help with the documentation and have some notes
already for myself that I will use as source material.
> Improve C client to support dynamic authentication schemes
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> Key: ZOOKEEPER-896
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-896
> Project: Zookeeper
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: c client
> Affects Versions: 3.3.1
> Reporter: Botond Hejj
> Assignee: Botond Hejj
> Fix For: 3.4.0
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> Attachments: ZOOKEEPER-896.patch
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> When we started exploring zookeeper for our requirements we found the
> authentication mechanism is not flexible enough.
> We want to use kerberos for authentication but using the current API we ran
> into a few problems. The idea is that we get a kerberos token on the client
> side and than send that token to the server with a kerberos scheme. A server
> side authentication plugin can use that token to authenticate the client and
> also use the token for authorization.
> We ran into two problems with this approach:
> 1. A different kerberos token is needed for each different server that client
> can connect to since kerberos uses mutual authentication. That means when the
> client acquires this kerberos token it has to know which server it connects
> to and generate the token according to that. The client currently can't
> generate a token for a specific server. The token stored in the auth_info is
> used for all the servers.
> 2. The kerberos token might have an expiry time so if the client loses the
> connection to the server and than it tries to reconnect it should acquire a
> new token. That is not possible currently since the token is stored in
> auth_info and reused for every connection.
> The problem can be solved if we allow the client to register a callback for
> authentication instead a static token. This can be a callback with an
> argument which passes the current host string. The zookeeper client code
> could call this callback before it sends the authentication info to the
> server to get a fresh server specific token.
> This would solve our problem with the kerberos authentication and also could
> be used for other more dynamic authentication schemes.
> The solution could be generalization also for the java client as well.
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