Re: Current security implementation in Hadoop

2009-07-23 Thread Ted Dunning
Your architecture is a bit unusual in that you seem to be proposing that users get direct access to the hadoop storage layer. More common is to have a controller layer that mediates requests to store or read data. With that layer of abstraction, you can deal with some of the problems associated w

Re: Current security implementation in Hadoop

2009-07-23 Thread Giovanni Tusa
Hi, thank you both for the links and advices. Looking at the work in progress concerning security, it seems that currently the only way to have authentication is to implement it at the Web Server level. In my case, my web server is deployed under Tomcat, therefore I think I should manage clients au

Re: Current security implementation in Hadoop

2009-07-22 Thread Dhruba Borthakur
Also, you can look at work in progress: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4487 thanks, dhruba On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Andrey Pankov wrote: > Maybe this would be interesting for you, > > > http://www.hadoop.iponweb.net/Home/hdfs-over-webdav/authentication-and-permissions > > O

Re: Current security implementation in Hadoop

2009-07-22 Thread Andrey Pankov
Maybe this would be interesting for you, http://www.hadoop.iponweb.net/Home/hdfs-over-webdav/authentication-and-permissions On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 19:00, Giovanni Tusa wrote: > Hi all, > > on my company we recently began some projects where we would like to > actively use hadoop. > For one of th

Current security implementation in Hadoop

2009-07-22 Thread Giovanni Tusa
Hi all, on my company we recently began some projects where we would like to actively use hadoop. For one of them, basically we have implemented a feed service where feed entries (there could be a lot of data because many different users can post feeds), are actually stored in the server filesyste