Sushanth Sowmyan created HIVE-5048:
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Summary: StorageBasedAuthorization provider causes an NPE when
asked to authorize from client side.
Key: HIVE-5048
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5048
Project: Hive
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Security
Reporter: Sushanth Sowmyan
Assignee: Sushanth Sowmyan
StorageBasedAuthorizationProvider(henceforth referred to as SBAP) is a
HiveMetastoreAuthorizationProvider (henceforth referred to as HMAP, and
HiveAuthorizationProvider as HAP) that was introduced as part of HIVE-3705.
As long as it's used as a HMAP, i.e. from the metastore-side, as was its
initial implementation intent, everything's great. However, HMAP extends HAP,
and there is no reason SBAP shouldn't be expected to work as a HAP as well.
However, it uses a wh variable that is never initialized if it is called as a
HAP, and hence, it will always fail when authorize is called on it.
We should change SBAP so that it correctly initiazes wh so that it can be run
as a HAP as well.
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