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Kai Zheng commented on HADOOP-9479:
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Hi Benoy,
Very interesting patch! It provides custom and configurable
AuthenticationProvider by wrapping SASL mechanism and JAAS module.
Would it be better to generalize the AuthenticationProvider so that it can also
fit the existing simple and Kerberos authentication method, and then refactor
related code based on it? In my view it would be great to have such
authentication provider that wraps client authentication and server
authentication JAAS modules, the client-server SASL mechanism and related
configurations together as you do, and then have concrete authentication
implementations like SimpleAuthenticationProvider,
KerberosAuthenticationProvider, and HADOOP-9296. In this way code and
configuration related to one mechanism can be localized to the provider
implementation. Another benefit would be it allows introducing additional
methods in the future without the need to enumerate all of them in
UserGroupInformation.AuthenticationMethod.
> Ability to plugin custom authentication mechanisms based on Jaas and Sasl
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>
> Key: HADOOP-9479
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9479
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: security
> Reporter: Benoy Antony
> Assignee: Benoy Antony
> Attachments: customauthentication.pdf, HADOOP-9479.patch
>
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> Currently, it is not possible to hookup new/modified authentication mechanism
> to Hadoop.
> The task is to create an extension in hadoop to plugin new Authentication
> mechanism. The new authentication mechanism should have both Jaas and Sasl
> implementations.
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