[ACCUMULO-3490] Enable SPNEGO authentication for monitor

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Auto Closed
• Component/s: monitor
• Assignee: Josh Elser
• Reporter: Josh Elser
• Created: 16/Jan/15 18:52
• Updated: 27/Aug/19 23:16
• Resolved: 27/Aug/19 23:16

Description

In non-technical terms, if we configure the monitor to support SPNEGO, we can get KRB authentication of clients trying to connect to the Accumulo monitor. This is a typical deployment decision made with Hadoop to protect things like the NN overview page and the RM page.

Including some authentication for the monitor has some general benefit. It would also be a neat integration with the shell servlet – automatically log you in and start using the shell in your web-browser.