[jira] Commented: (HADOOP-3764) libhdfs should allow connection to the DFS as a given user

["Pete Wyckoff (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Pete Wyckoff commented on HADOOP-3764:
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I wrote:

{code}
hdfsConnectAsUser(host, port, char *user, char *grouups[])
{code}

patch coming after some debugging


> libhdfs should allow connection to the DFS as a given user
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-3764
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3764
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: libhdfs
>            Reporter: Craig Macdonald
>
> Consider a gateway service (e.g. NFS server->HDFS gateway, fuse-dfs).
> In these examples, different users will connect to the the gateway service. In each case, libhdfs should facilitate connection using the user's security context. This ensures that existing permissions, ownership, group-ownership in the DFS are respected.

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