Kai Zheng created HADOOP-11766:
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             Summary: Generic token authentication support for Hadoop
                 Key: HADOOP-11766
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11766
             Project: Hadoop Common
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: security
            Reporter: Kai Zheng
            Assignee: Kai Zheng


As a major goal of Rhino project, we proposed *TokenAuth* effort in 
HADOOP-9392, where it's to provide a common token authentication framework to 
integrate multiple authentication mechanisms, by adding a new 
{{AuthenticationMethod}} in lieu of {{KERBEROS}} and {{SIMPLE}}. To minimize 
the required changes and risk, we thought of another approach to achieve the 
general goals based on Kerberos as Kerberos itself supports a 
pre-authentication framework in both spec and implementation, which was 
discussed in HADOOP-10959 as *TokenPreauth*. In both approaches, we had 
performed workable prototypes covering both command line console and Hadoop web 
UI. 

As HADOOP-9392 is rather lengthy and heavy, HADOOP-10959 is mostly focused on 
the concrete implementation approach based on Kerberos, we open this for more 
general and updated discussions about requirement, use cases, and concerns for 
the generic token authentication support for Hadoop. We distinguish this token 
from existing Hadoop tokens as the token in this discussion is majorly for the 
initial and primary authentication. We will refine our existing codes in 
HADOOP-9392 and HADOOP-10959, break them down into smaller patches based on 
latest trunk. 



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