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Nandakumar commented on HIVE-15579:
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Not able to edit the jira to add release note. (guess I don't have permission)
Content to be added as part of release note:
{quote} Using HADOOP_PROXY_USER a superuser can access hive through hive cli on
behalf of another user.
To use this feature, export HADOOP_PROXY_USER with the user that has to be
proxied and start hive cli.
The HADOOP_PROXY_USER can be set either in system environmental variable or in
system property {quote}
> Support HADOOP_PROXY_USER for secure impersonation in hive metastore client
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> Key: HIVE-15579
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-15579
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Thejas M Nair
> Assignee: Nandakumar
> Labels: TODOC2.2
> Fix For: 2.2.0
>
> Attachments: HIVE-15579.000.patch, HIVE-15579.001.patch,
> HIVE-15579.002.patch, HIVE-15579.003.patch, HIVE-15579.003.patch
>
>
> Hadoop clients support HADOOP_PROXY_USER for secure impersonation. It would
> be useful to have similar feature for hive metastore client.
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