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[jira] [Updated] (RANGER-668) Improve Ranger to use native ACLs instead of agent policies

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RANGER-668?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Hari Sekhon updated RANGER-668:
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    Description: 
I raised a request around a year ago for Hortonworks to do native ACL push-down, it looks like Ranger is still doing agent policies, which creates a dependency on the ranger agent (I know it's not a separate process to fail) rather than just keeping the ACL in say HDFS or Hive.

I appreciate this is a big change but is this something that can be realistically implemented in the mid-term?

This would also allow better auditing since Ranger would be reading the online ACLs (eg. the NameNode) would truly give a unified view of the applied ACLs to a given data source.

  was:
I raised a request around a year ago for Hortonworks to do native ACL push-down, it looks like Ranger is still doing agent policies, which creates a dependency on the agent working rather than just keeping the ACL in say HDFS or Hive.

I appreciate this is a big change but is this something that can be realistically implemented in the mid-term?

This would also allow better auditing since Ranger would be reading the online ACLs (eg. the NameNode) would truly give a unified view of the applied ACLs to a given data source.


> Improve Ranger to use native ACLs instead of agent policies
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: RANGER-668
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RANGER-668
>             Project: Ranger
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 0.5.0
>         Environment: HDP 2.3 + Kerberos
>            Reporter: Hari Sekhon
>
> I raised a request around a year ago for Hortonworks to do native ACL push-down, it looks like Ranger is still doing agent policies, which creates a dependency on the ranger agent (I know it's not a separate process to fail) rather than just keeping the ACL in say HDFS or Hive.
> I appreciate this is a big change but is this something that can be realistically implemented in the mid-term?
> This would also allow better auditing since Ranger would be reading the online ACLs (eg. the NameNode) would truly give a unified view of the applied ACLs to a given data source.



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