Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-hadoop-common-issues-archive@minotaur.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-common-issues-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F3FA1873C for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 00:17:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 49005 invoked by uid 500); 14 Oct 2015 00:17:06 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-common-issues-archive@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 48945 invoked by uid 500); 14 Oct 2015 00:17:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact common-issues-help@hadoop.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: common-issues@hadoop.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list common-issues@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 48932 invoked by uid 99); 14 Oct 2015 00:17:05 -0000 Received: from arcas.apache.org (HELO arcas.apache.org) (140.211.11.28) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 00:17:05 +0000 Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 00:17:05 +0000 (UTC) From: "roger mak (JIRA)" To: common-issues@hadoop.apache.org Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Subject: [jira] [Commented] (HADOOP-11683) Need a plugin API to translate long principal names to local OS user names arbitrarily MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-JIRA-FingerPrint: 30527f35849b9dde25b450d4833f0394 [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11683?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=14955997#comment-14955997 ] roger mak commented on HADOOP-11683: ------------------------------------ The failed unit test, hadoop.ipc.TestIPC, is unrelated to this patch. I am going to resubmit the patch for retry. > 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 > Affects Versions: 2.6.0 > Reporter: Sunny Cheung > Assignee: roger mak > Attachments: HADOOP-11683.001.patch, HADOOP-11683.002.patch > > > 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. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)