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Chris Nauroth commented on HADOOP-13066:
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[~liuml07], the documentation improvement sounds like a great idea to me.
How/when UGI mutates global state is a common source of confusion.
> UserGroupInformation.loginWithKerberos/getLoginUser is not thread-safe
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> Key: HADOOP-13066
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-13066
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: security
> Reporter: Sergey Shelukhin
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> When calling loginFromKerberos, a static variable is set up with the result.
> If someone logs in as a different user from a different thread, the call to
> getLoginUser will not return the correct UGI.
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