RE: About FileBasedGroupMapping provider and Virtual Groups

2012-12-13 Thread Chuan Liu
rom: Zheng, Kai [mailto:kai.zh...@intel.com] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 7:09 AM To: common-dev@hadoop.apache.org Subject: About FileBasedGroupMapping provider and Virtual Groups Hi everyone, Before I open a JIRA, I'd like to know how you like it, a file based group mapping provider. Th

About FileBasedGroupMapping provider and Virtual Groups

2012-12-10 Thread Zheng, Kai
Hi everyone, Before I open a JIRA, I'd like to know how you like it, a file based group mapping provider. The idea is as follows. 1. Have a new user group mapping provider such as FileBasedGroupMapping, which consumes a mapping file like below: $HADOOP_CONF/groupsMapping.txt: group1:user1,user2