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Lefty Leverenz commented on HIVE-7209: -------------------------------------- Doc notes: The description of *hive.security.metastore.authorization.manager* needs to be updated in the wiki (with version information, and keeping some extra information not found in HiveConf.java). * [Configuration Properties -- hive.security.metastore.authorization.manager | https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Configuration+Properties#ConfigurationProperties-hive.security.metastore.authorization.manager] Other than that, HIVE-7759 will add general documentation for this feature with a section in the SQL standard authorization doc about CLI behavior with SQL standard authorization turned on. * [SQL Standard Based Hive Authorization | https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/SQL+Standard+Based+Hive+Authorization] > allow metastore authorization api calls to be restricted to certain invokers > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-7209 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-7209 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Authentication, Metastore > Reporter: Thejas M Nair > Assignee: Thejas M Nair > Labels: TODOC14 > Fix For: 0.14.0 > > Attachments: HIVE-7209.1.patch, HIVE-7209.2.patch, HIVE-7209.3.patch, > HIVE-7209.4.patch > > > Any user who has direct access to metastore can make metastore api calls that > modify the authorization policy. > The users who can make direct metastore api calls in a secure cluster > configuration are usually the 'cluster insiders' such as Pig and MR users, > who are not (securely) covered by the metastore based authorization policy. > But it makes sense to disallow access from such users as well. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)