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[jira] [Commented] (RANGER-698) Ranger policy should support variables like $user

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RANGER-698?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=15457103#comment-15457103 ] 

Don Bosco Durai commented on RANGER-698:
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This is really cool. Thanks for implementing this. I have a question how are we allowing {USER} to be selected in the user drop down? Is it one of the item in the drop down list?

Also, in the future, we should consider creating some default policies. E.g. /home/{USER} out of the box. 



> Ranger policy should support variables like $user
> -------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: RANGER-698
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RANGER-698
>             Project: Ranger
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 0.7.0
>            Reporter: Don Bosco Durai
>            Assignee: Abhay Kulkarni
>             Fix For: 0.7.0
>
>
> It would be good to support variables in resources and users.
> E.g.
> HDFS Resource =  /home/$user  
> or
> Table Resource = ${user}_*
> Users allowed = $user
> Where $user will be expanded to the current user. 
> I think, resource substitution will be easy. For permission, we can use key word like we use for all users group="public". We can use key word like "USER" or something like that.



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