Shell prompts

[Josh Elser <jo...@gmail.com>]

% accumulo shell -u root -
26 17:08:35,072 [impl.DefaultFileSystemManager] INFO : Using 
"/tmp/foobar" as temporary files store.
Enter password - the password for the principal: ***********************
Enter principal - option field to provide the principal, mostly used for 
better debug statements:

This is new to me. Seems... a little strange to get prompted for 
something that will give me better debug statements. Actually, to be 
honest, I have no idea what that even means or why I would care when I 
want to just open the shell.

Can anyone give an explanation as to what this is actually doing? Is it 
something that we want to prompt for the user for all the time?

I could see this raising a lot of confusion for the normal ZooKeeper 
authentication mechanism.

Re: Shell prompts

[John Vines <vi...@apache.org>]

Fixed with revision 1461330/1. I needed principal in login and my head was
stuck in the smaller scope so I added it to the login properties instead of
tweaking the login interface. This has now been addressed.


On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Christopher <ct...@apache.org> wrote:

> I agree it's confusing. I have no idea what this is for or why it
> would be needed. Isn't there already a principal field? (-u). What
> happened to that?
>
> --
> Christopher L Tubbs II
> http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Eric Newton <er...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I agree.  If the authentication mechanism needs more information, the
> > extension mechanism needs to indicate it.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Josh Elser <jo...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> % accumulo shell -u root -
> >> 26 17:08:35,072 [impl.**DefaultFileSystemManager] INFO : Using
> >> "/tmp/foobar" as temporary files store.
> >> Enter password - the password for the principal: ***********************
> >> Enter principal - option field to provide the principal, mostly used for
> >> better debug statements:
> >>
> >> This is new to me. Seems... a little strange to get prompted for
> something
> >> that will give me better debug statements. Actually, to be honest, I
> have
> >> no idea what that even means or why I would care when I want to just
> open
> >> the shell.
> >>
> >> Can anyone give an explanation as to what this is actually doing? Is it
> >> something that we want to prompt for the user for all the time?
> >>
> >> I could see this raising a lot of confusion for the normal ZooKeeper
> >> authentication mechanism.
> >>
>

Re: Shell prompts

[Christopher <ct...@apache.org>]

I agree it's confusing. I have no idea what this is for or why it
would be needed. Isn't there already a principal field? (-u). What
happened to that?

--
Christopher L Tubbs II
http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii


On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Eric Newton <er...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree.  If the authentication mechanism needs more information, the
> extension mechanism needs to indicate it.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Josh Elser <jo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> % accumulo shell -u root -
>> 26 17:08:35,072 [impl.**DefaultFileSystemManager] INFO : Using
>> "/tmp/foobar" as temporary files store.
>> Enter password - the password for the principal: ***********************
>> Enter principal - option field to provide the principal, mostly used for
>> better debug statements:
>>
>> This is new to me. Seems... a little strange to get prompted for something
>> that will give me better debug statements. Actually, to be honest, I have
>> no idea what that even means or why I would care when I want to just open
>> the shell.
>>
>> Can anyone give an explanation as to what this is actually doing? Is it
>> something that we want to prompt for the user for all the time?
>>
>> I could see this raising a lot of confusion for the normal ZooKeeper
>> authentication mechanism.
>>

Re: Shell prompts

[Eric Newton <er...@gmail.com>]

I agree.  If the authentication mechanism needs more information, the
extension mechanism needs to indicate it.



On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Josh Elser <jo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> % accumulo shell -u root -
> 26 17:08:35,072 [impl.**DefaultFileSystemManager] INFO : Using
> "/tmp/foobar" as temporary files store.
> Enter password - the password for the principal: ***********************
> Enter principal - option field to provide the principal, mostly used for
> better debug statements:
>
> This is new to me. Seems... a little strange to get prompted for something
> that will give me better debug statements. Actually, to be honest, I have
> no idea what that even means or why I would care when I want to just open
> the shell.
>
> Can anyone give an explanation as to what this is actually doing? Is it
> something that we want to prompt for the user for all the time?
>
> I could see this raising a lot of confusion for the normal ZooKeeper
> authentication mechanism.
>