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Rakesh R commented on BOOKKEEPER-391: ------------------------------------- bq. During the meeting we talked about this issue I hope the discussion went well. Wish you all the best for your dev efforts. bq. Can you explain more deeply the purpose of having a special entry for the Auditor ? AutoRecovery is meant for replication purpose and iirc, this is designed as an admin operated service. BK supports to start AutoRecovery service in either embedded mode or start [AutoRecovery|https://github.com/apache/bookkeeper/blob/master/bookkeeper-server/bin/bookkeeper#L207] as a separate process. Since this is designed as an admin operated service, I'd prefer to provide a provision to configure his own credentials rather than using a normal bookkeeper client's credentials. If admin wants to use same bookkeeper client's credentials to AutoRecovery then he could take a call and configure the same in {{BookieAuditor}} principal entries section. Does this makes sense to you? > Support Kerberos authentication of bookkeeper > --------------------------------------------- > > Key: BOOKKEEPER-391 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BOOKKEEPER-391 > Project: Bookkeeper > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: bookkeeper-client, bookkeeper-server > Reporter: Rakesh R > Assignee: Enrico Olivelli > > This JIRA to discuss authentication mechanism of bookie clients and server. > Assume ZK provides fully secured communication channel using Kerberos based > authentication and authorization model. We could also manage and renew users > authenticated to BK via Kerberos. There is currently no configuration or > hooks for the Bookie process to obtain Kerberos credentials. > Today an unauthenticated bookie client can easily establish connection with > the bookkeeper server. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)