[jira] [Assigned] (ACCUMULO-1028) Distinguish the user principal from the authentication token

["John Vines (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-1028?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

John Vines reassigned ACCUMULO-1028:
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    Assignee: John Vines
    
> Distinguish the user principal from the authentication token
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ACCUMULO-1028
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-1028
>             Project: Accumulo
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: master, tserver
>            Reporter: Christopher Tubbs
>            Assignee: John Vines
>             Fix For: 1.5.0
>
>
> The user principal is something that uniquely identifies a user. An authentication token is the item that authenticates the user principal, may be temporal, and may vary. It is not clear from the implementation of ACCUMULO-259 that these are separate things, and I think it would benefit the API to distinguish them.
> It could also simplify the API, for users transitioning from the old authentication stuff to the new authentication stuff, because there would be a one-to-one mapping with the username/password with which they are familiar:
> {code:java}
> public Connector getConnector(String username, byte[] password);
> {code}
> becomes
> {code:java}
> public <T extends AuthToken> Connector getConnector(Principal userPrincipal, T authToken);
> {code}

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