[jira] [Moved] (HADOOP-12888) HDFS client requires compromising permission when running under JVM security manager

["Steve Loughran (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12888?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Steve Loughran moved HDFS-9875 to HADOOP-12888:
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    Affects Version/s:     (was: 2.7.2)
                       2.7.2
          Component/s:     (was: security)
                           (was: hdfs-client)
                       security
                  Key: HADOOP-12888  (was: HDFS-9875)
              Project: Hadoop Common  (was: Hadoop HDFS)

> HDFS client requires compromising permission when running under JVM security manager
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-12888
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12888
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: security
>    Affects Versions: 2.7.2
>         Environment: Linux
>            Reporter: Costin Leau
>
> HDFS _client_ requires dangerous permission, in particular _execute_ on _all files_ despite only trying to connect to an HDFS cluster.
> A full list (for both Hadoop 1 and 2) is available here along with the place in code where they occur.
> While it is understandable for some permissions to be used, requiring {{FilePermission <<ALL FILES>> execute}} to simply initialize a class field [Shell|https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/0fa54d45b1cf8a29f089f64d24f35bd221b4803f/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/Shell.java#L728] which in the end is not used (since it's just a client) simply *compromises* the entire security system.
> To make matters worse, the code is executed to initialize a field so in case the permissions is not granted, the VM fails with {{InitializationError}} which is unrecoverable.
> Ironically enough, on Windows this problem does not appear since the code simply bypasses it and initializes the field with a fall back value ({{false}}).
> A quick fix would be to simply take into account that the JVM {{SecurityManager}} might be active and the permission not granted or that the external process fails and use a fall back value.
> A proper and long-term fix would be to minimize the use of permissions for hdfs client since it is simply not required. A client should be as light as possible and not have the server requirements leaked onto.



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