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[jira] [Created] (HADOOP-11683) Need a plugin API to translate long principal names to local OS user names arbitrarily

Sunny Cheung created HADOOP-11683:
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             Summary: Need a plugin API to translate long principal names to local OS user names arbitrarily
                 Key: HADOOP-11683
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11683
             Project: Hadoop Common
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: security
            Reporter: Sunny Cheung


We need a plugin API to translate long principal names (e.g. john.doe@EXAMPLE.COM) to local OS user names (e.g. user123456) arbitrarily.

For some organizations the name translation is straightforward (e.g. john.doe@EXAMPLE.COM to john_doe), and the hadoop.security.auth_to_local configurable mapping is sufficient to resolve this (see HADOOP-6526). However, in some other cases the name translation is arbitrary and cannot be generalized by a set of translation rules easily.



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