[jira] [Commented] (HDFS-5126) implement authorized HDFS user impersonation

["Erik.fang (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Erik.fang commented on HDFS-5126:
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I will submit a patch for prototype later
                
> implement authorized HDFS user impersonation
> --------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-5126
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-5126
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: security
>            Reporter: Erik.fang
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: features, security
>
> I propose a authorized user impersonate mechanism for fine grain (path level) access control in HDFS.
> In short, owner of data encrypt the path with a shared secret, and other user use the encrypted path to call namenode service (create/read/delete file). Namenode decrypt the path to validate the access and execute the operation as owner of the data if valid. It consists of:
> 1. a ACLFileSystem extends DistributedFileSystem, which wrap the create/open/delete/etc. RPC calls, and send the encrypted path to namenode
> 2. authenticator(embedded in namenode), which decrypt the path and execute the call as owner of the data
> With authorized user impersonate, we can develop a authorization manager to check whether a path level access is permitted.
> A detailed explanation can be found in maillist:
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hive-dev/201308.mbox/%3CCACkoVCxm+=44kB_4eWtepHe_knkdm0Uzyh=0q-vfybYU8eLQxw@mail.gmail.com%3E

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