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Lefty Leverenz commented on HIVE-6486: -------------------------------------- Oops! Okay, I've fixed that parenthesis and made a minor indentation change. Now I understand what you're saying. The parentheses (round brackets) enclose everything starting at Subject.doAs. What threw me off what the lack of a closing curly bracket to pair with the first line of the snippet, but in TestCase_HIVE-6486.java I see it's on the line following "return conn;" which is the last line of the snippet. Should that closing curly bracket be included in the doc? > Support secure Subject.doAs() in HiveServer2 JDBC client. > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-6486 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6486 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Authentication, HiveServer2, JDBC > Affects Versions: 0.11.0, 0.12.0 > Reporter: Shivaraju Gowda > Assignee: Shivaraju Gowda > Fix For: 0.13.0 > > Attachments: HIVE-6486.1.patch, HIVE-6486.2.patch, HIVE-6486.3.patch, > HIVE-6486_Hive0.11.patch, TestCase_HIVE-6486.java > > > HIVE-5155 addresses the problem of kerberos authentication in multi-user > middleware server using proxy user. In this mode the principal used by the > middle ware server has privileges to impersonate selected users in > Hive/Hadoop. > This enhancement is to support Subject.doAs() authentication in Hive JDBC > layer so that the end users Kerberos Subject is passed through in the middle > ware server. With this improvement there won't be any additional setup in the > server to grant proxy privileges to some users and there won't be need to > specify a proxy user in the JDBC client. This version should also be more > secure since it won't require principals with the privileges to impersonate > other users in Hive/Hadoop setup. > -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)