[jira] [Resolved] (ACCUMULO-1041) Generic interface for arbitrary token handling

["John Vines (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-1041?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

John Vines resolved ACCUMULO-1041.
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    Resolution: Fixed
    
> Generic interface for arbitrary token handling
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>                 Key: ACCUMULO-1041
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-1041
>             Project: Accumulo
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: client
>            Reporter: John Vines
>            Assignee: John Vines
>             Fix For: 1.5.0
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> [~ctubbsii], [~kturner] and I hashed out details for best approach for generic tokens which should work both for our API and the proxy.
> # Client requests the Authenticator class name
> # Client creates instance of Authenticator, calls login(Properties)
> # Properties are used to create the appropriate Token, which implements Writable, and return it to user.
> # Client uses principal + Token with getConnector call
> # Token is immediately serialized to be used within client api and packaged into a Credential object
> # Credential gets sent to server via thrift
> # Principal is checked, if !SYSTEM treated as a PasswordToken, otherwise deserialized as a class defined by the Authenticator (Writable's readFields method called on said class)
> # Token us then passed through the SecurityOperations impl as well as the authenticator api.
> This allows the authenticator API to use their requested tokens without confusion/code injection issues with deserialization happening for unknown token classes.
> The exact same process for token creation can also be used by the Proxy, with a Map of properties being passed it to create a token on the proxy.
> For backward support, the ZKAuthenticator will expect a PasswordToken, which is simply a byte array.

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