Luke Lu created HADOOP-8561: ------------------------------- Summary: Introduce HADOOP_PROXY_USER for secure impersonation in child hadoop client processes Key: HADOOP-8561 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8561 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Improvement Components: security Reporter: Luke Lu Assignee: Yu Gao
To solve the problem for an authenticated user to type hadoop shell commands in a web console, we can introduce an HADOOP_PROXY_USER environment variable to allow proper impersonation in the child hadoop client processes. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira