[jira] [Commented] (HBASE-6393) Decouple audit event creation from storage in AccessController

["Marcelo Vanzin (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Marcelo Vanzin commented on HBASE-6393:
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FYI, even though I had a patch for this originally and asked Matteo to hold off til I had a chance to update it, currently I'm probably not gonna spend time on that. (Internally I think we worked around this in a different manner, so adding this patch would probably not add much value to us at this point anyway.)

So feel free to do as you wish here. :-)

> Decouple audit event creation from storage in AccessController
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-6393
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-6393
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Brainstorming
>          Components: security
>    Affects Versions: 0.95.2
>            Reporter: Marcelo Vanzin
>         Attachments: HBASE-6393-v2.patch, HBASE-6393-v3.patch, hbase-6393-v1.patch
>
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> Currently, AccessControler takes care of both generating audit events (by performing access checks) and storing them (by creating a log message and writing it to the AUDITLOG logger).
> This makes the logging system the only way to catch audit events. It means that if someone wants to do something fancier (like writing these records to a database somewhere), they need to hack through the logging system, and parse the messages generated by AccessController, which is not optimal.
> The attached patch decouples generation and storage by introducing a new interface, used by AccessController, to log the audit events. The current, log-based storage is kept in place so that current users won't be affected by the change.
> I'm filing this as an RFC at this point, so the patch is not totally clean; it's on top of HBase 0.92 (which is easier for me to test) and doesn't have any unit tests, for starters. But the changes should be very similar on trunk - I don't remember changes in this particular area of the code between those versions.



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