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Posted to common-dev@hadoop.apache.org by 郭华 <a7...@126.com> on 2012/03/19 14:21:29 UTC

about hadoop security

hello,
I am reading hadoop's source code.
I want to know that if hadoop uses JAAS?
best regards!

Re: about hadoop security

Posted by Owen O'Malley <om...@apache.org>.

2012/3/19 郭华 <a7...@126.com>

> hello,
> I am reading hadoop's source code.
> I want to know that if hadoop uses JAAS?
>

If you look in UserGroupInformation.java, you'll see where Hadoop hooks
into JAAS. JAAS isn't a great fit for Hadoop's security needs, but it did
provide a hook to get the Kerberos credentials.

-- Owen