Re: [DISCUSS] KIP-48 Support for delegation tokens as an authentication mechanism

2016-04-18 Thread Jitendra Pandey
Sending it again on the existing thread. The need for a large number of clients that are running all over the cluster that authenticate with Kafka brokers, is very similar to the Hadoop use case of large number of tasks running across the cluster that need authentication to Hdfs Namenode. Th

[DISCUSS] KIP-48 Support for delegation tokens as an authentication mechanism

2016-04-15 Thread Jitendra Pandey
The need for a large number of clients that are running all over the cluster that authenticate with Kafka brokers, is very similar to the Hadoop use case of large number of tasks running across the cluster that need authentication to Hdfs Namenode. Therefore, the delegation token approach does