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[jira] [Assigned] (HADOOP-11137) put up guard rails around pid and log file handling

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11137?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Allen Wittenauer reassigned HADOOP-11137:
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    Assignee: Allen Wittenauer  (was: Brahma Reddy Battula)

> put up guard rails around pid and log file handling
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-11137
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11137
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: scripts, security
>            Reporter: Allen Wittenauer
>            Assignee: Allen Wittenauer
>              Labels: newbie, scripts, security
>
> We should do a better job of protecting against symlink attacks in the pid and log file handling code:
> a) Change the default location to have a user or id.str component
> b) Check to make sure a pid file is actually a pid file (single line, nothing but numbers)
> ... maybe other stuff?



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