[jira] [Commented] (STORM-347) (Security) authentication should allow for groups not just users

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ASF GitHub Bot commented on STORM-347:
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GitHub user harshach opened a pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/incubator-storm/pull/166

    STORM-347. (Security) authentication should allow for groups not just users.

    

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    https://github.com/apache/incubator-storm/pull/166.patch

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    This closes #166
    
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commit f3112fa76e98038da83170513a476499dde0bb41
Author: Sriharsha Chintalapani <ma...@harsha.io>
Date:   2014-06-26T22:05:21Z

    STORM-347. (Security) authentication should allow for groups not just users.

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> (Security) authentication should allow for groups not just users
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: STORM-347
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STORM-347
>             Project: Apache Storm (Incubating)
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Robert Joseph Evans
>            Assignee: Sriharsha Chintalapani
>              Labels: security
>
> It would really be great if authentication for topology access, and the UI could support groups, not just users.
> It might be worth looking at some Hadoop code that already does things like this.



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