[jira] [Created] (HADOOP-11291) Log the cause of SASL connection failures

["Stephen Chu (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Stephen Chu created HADOOP-11291:
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             Summary: Log the cause of SASL connection failures
                 Key: HADOOP-11291
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11291
             Project: Hadoop Common
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: security
    Affects Versions: 2.5.0
            Reporter: Stephen Chu
            Assignee: Stephen Chu
            Priority: Minor


{{UGI#doAs}} will no longer log a PriviledgedActionException unless LOG.isDebugEnabled() == true. HADOOP-10015 made this change because it was decided that users calling {{UGI#doAs}} should be responsible for logging the error when catching an exception. Also, the log was confusing in certain situations (see more details in HADOOP-10015).

However, as Daryn noted, this log message was very helpful in cases of debugging security issues.

As an example, we would use to see this in the DN logs before HADOOP-10015:
{code}
2014-10-20 11:28:02,112 WARN org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation: PriviledgedActionException as:hdfs/hostA.com@REALM.COM (auth:KERBEROS) cause:javax.security.sasl.SaslException: GSS initiate failed [Caused by GSSException: No valid credentials provided (Mechanism level: Generic error (description in e-text) (60) - NO PREAUTH)]
2014-10-20 11:28:02,112 WARN org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client: Couldn't setup connection for hdfs/hostA.com@REALM.COM to hostB.com/101.01.010:8022
2014-10-20 11:28:02,112 WARN org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation: PriviledgedActionException as:hdfs/hostA.com@REALM.COM (auth:KERBEROS) cause:java.io.IOException: Couldn't setup connection for hdfs/hostA.com@REALM.COM to hostB.com/101.01.010:8022
{code}

After the fix went in, the DN was upgraded, and only logs:
{code}
2014-10-20 14:11:40,712 WARN org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client: Couldn't setup connection for hdfs/hostA.com@REALM.COM to hostB.com/101.01.010:8022
2014-10-20 14:11:40,713 WARN org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode: Problem connecting to server: hostB.com/101.01.010:8022
{code}

It'd be good to add more logging information about the cause of a SASL connection failure.

Thanks to [~qwertymaniac] for reporting this.



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