[HADOOP-13276] S3a operations keep retrying if the password is wrong

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.8.4
• Component/s: fs/s3
• Assignee: Thomas Poepping
• Reporter: Steve Loughran
• Created: 15/Jun/16 13:13
• Updated: 04/Oct/22 16:23

Description

If you do a hadoop fs command with the AWS account valid but the password wrong, it takes a while to timeout, because of retries happening underneath.

Eventually it gives up, but failing fast would be better.

1. maybe: check the password length and fail if it is not the right length (is there a standard one? Or at least a range?)
2. consider a retry policy which fails faster on signature failures/403 responses

Issue Links

• relates to: HADOOP-14556 S3A to support Delegation Tokens