[jira] [Created] (RANGER-1850) Impersonation/proxy user support for gaiandb ranger plugin

["Nigel Jones (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Nigel Jones created RANGER-1850:
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             Summary: Impersonation/proxy user support for gaiandb ranger plugin
                 Key: RANGER-1850
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RANGER-1850
             Project: Ranger
          Issue Type: Sub-task
          Components: plugins
            Reporter: Nigel Jones


Applications/users could connect to gaianDB using their own authentication information - for example userid/password in the simple case. Here the ranger plugin will use that id for policy checks.

However in a multi tiered architecture a service id (aka non personal account) may be used, and somehow the user to be impersonated is passed via an additional property. This has a number of implications to the system configuration, derby/gaiandb configuration & the plugin implementation. 

Opening this Jira as a placeholder and will add a document soon (++days) on the same to capture some of the discussion around this area in recent days.



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