Kihwal Lee created HDFS-11053:
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Summary: Unnecessary superuser check in versionRequest()
Key: HDFS-11053
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-11053
Project: Hadoop HDFS
Issue Type: Bug
Reporter: Kihwal Lee
The {{versionRequest()}} call does not return any sensitive information. It is
mainly used for sanity checks. The presence of {{checkSuperuserPrivilege()}}
forces users to run datanode as a hdfs superuser.
In secure setup, a keytab obtained from a compromised datanode can allow the
intruder to gain hdfs superuser privilege. We should allow datanodes to be run
as non-hdfs-superuser by removing {{checkSuperuserPrivilege()}} from
{{versionRequest()}}.
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