[jira] [Assigned] (HAWQ-1036) Support user impersonation in PXF for external tables

["Alexander Denissov (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HAWQ-1036?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Alexander Denissov reassigned HAWQ-1036:
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    Assignee: Alexander Denissov  (was: Goden Yao)

> Support user impersonation in PXF for external tables
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>                 Key: HAWQ-1036
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HAWQ-1036
>             Project: Apache HAWQ
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: PXF, Security
>            Reporter: Alastair "Bell" Turner
>            Assignee: Alexander Denissov
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: backlog
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>         Attachments: HAWQ_Impersonation_rationale.txt
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> Currently HAWQ executes all queries as the user running the HAWQ process or the user running the PXF process, not as the user who issued the query via ODBC/JDBC/... This restricts the options available for integrating with existing security defined in HDFS, Hive, etc.
> Impersonation provides an alternative Ranger integration (as discussed in HAWQ-256 ) for consistent security across HAWQ, HDFS, Hive...
> Implementation High Level steps:
> 1) HAWQ needs to integrate with existing authentication components for the user who invokes the query
> 2) HAWQ needs to pass down the user id to PXF after authorization is passed 
> 3) PXF needs to do "run as ..." the user id to execute APIs to access Hive/HDFS 



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