[jira] [Commented] (RANGER-785) Ranger plugins should support a formal notion of super user

["Madhan Neethiraj (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Madhan Neethiraj commented on RANGER-785:
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* added method {{RangerBasePlugin.setSuperUsersAndGroups(users, groups)}}, which a plugin implementation can call to register users and groups for whom all permissions should be allowed
* additional super-users and groups can be specified via service-configurations {{ranger.plugin.super.users}}, {{ranger.plugin.super.groups}}
* Ranger plugin will allow all accesses from super users and groups
* Ranger plugin generates audit logs for such accesses - just as for regular users

> Ranger plugins should support a formal notion of super user
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: RANGER-785
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RANGER-785
>             Project: Ranger
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: plugins
>            Reporter: Alok Lal
>            Assignee: Madhan Neethiraj
>            Priority: Major
>             Fix For: 2.1.0
>
>         Attachments: RANGER-785.patch
>
>
> Most services that we authorize have some notion of superuser.
> # hbase has a property which lists the superuse id.  Ranger plugin skips most authorizations for that superuser.
> # In case of kafka unless proper policies exist for the service user cluster won't come up.
> # At other times people have asked that auditing be done differently for the service user.
> One way to remedy these is to add a formal notion of a superuser for a service and deal with it appropriately during service creation, during authorization in the plugin, etc.



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