[jira] [Updated] (HADOOP-12082) Support multiple authentication schemes via AuthenticationFilter

["Hrishikesh Gadre (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12082?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Hrishikesh Gadre updated HADOOP-12082:
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    Attachment: multi-scheme-auth-support-poc.patch

Here is a skeleton code implementing the multi-scheme authentication. Currently it is supporting two authentication schemes,
- Basic authentication using hardcoded username/password
- Negotiate scheme using Kerberos

We would be expanding on the LDAP support to replace the hardcoded username/password. I have tested this patch of hadoop 2.6 codebase and it is working as expected. This patch will provide more insights for this proposal.

> Support multiple authentication schemes via AuthenticationFilter
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>                 Key: HADOOP-12082
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12082
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: security
>    Affects Versions: 2.6.0
>            Reporter: Hrishikesh Gadre
>         Attachments: multi-scheme-auth-support-poc.patch
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> The requirement is to support LDAP based authentication scheme via Hadoop AuthenticationFilter. HADOOP-9054 added a support to plug-in custom authentication scheme (in addition to Kerberos) via AltKerberosAuthenticationHandler class. But it is based on selecting the authentication mechanism based on User-Agent HTTP header which does not conform to HTTP protocol semantics.
> As per [RFC-2616|http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html]
> - HTTP protocol provides a simple challenge-response authentication mechanism that can be used by a server to challenge a client request and by a client to provide the necessary authentication information. 
> - This mechanism is initiated by server sending the 401 (Authenticate) response with ‘WWW-Authenticate’ header which includes at least one challenge that indicates the authentication scheme(s) and parameters applicable to the Request-URI. 
> - In case server supports multiple authentication schemes, it may return multiple challenges with a 401 (Authenticate) response, and each challenge may use a different auth-scheme. 
> - A user agent MUST choose to use the strongest auth-scheme it understands and request credentials from the user based upon that challenge.
> The existing Hadoop authentication filter implementation supports Kerberos authentication scheme and uses ‘Negotiate’ as the challenge as part of ‘WWW-Authenticate’ response header. As per the following documentation, ‘Negotiate’ challenge scheme is only applicable to Kerberos (and Windows NTLM) authentication schemes.
> [SPNEGO-based Kerberos and NTLM HTTP Authentication|http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4559]
> [Understanding HTTP Authentication|https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms789031%28v=vs.110%29.aspx]
> On the other hand for LDAP authentication, typically ‘Basic’ authentication scheme is used (Note TLS is mandatory with Basic authentication scheme).
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/mod_authnz_ldap.html
> Hence for this feature, the idea would be to provide a custom implementation of Hadoop AuthenticationHandler and Authenticator interfaces which would support both schemes - Kerberos (via Negotiate auth challenge) and LDAP (via Basic auth challenge). During the authentication phase, it would send both the challenges and let client pick the appropriate one. If client responds with an ‘Authorization’ header tagged with ‘Negotiate’ - it will use Kerberos authentication. If client responds with an ‘Authorization’ header tagged with ‘Basic’ - it will use LDAP authentication.
> Note - some HTTP clients (e.g. curl or Apache Http Java client) need to be configured to use one scheme over the other e.g.
> - curl tool supports option to use either Kerberos (via --negotiate flag) or username/password based authentication (via --basic and -u flags). 
> - Apache HttpClient library can be configured to use specific authentication scheme.
> http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/tutorial/html/authentication.html
> Typically web browsers automatically choose an authentication scheme based on a notion of “strength” of security. e.g. take a look at the [design of Chrome browser for HTTP authentication|https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/http-authentication]



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