[MAPREDUCE-4970] Child tasks (try to) create security audit log files

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.1.1
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Sandy Ryza
• Reporter: Sandy Ryza
• Created: 31/Jan/13 22:49
• Updated: 15/May/13 05:16
• Resolved: 06/Feb/13 01:48

Description

After HADOOP-8552, MR child tasks will attempt to create security audit log files with their user names. On an insecure cluster, this has no effect, but on a secure cluster, log4j will try to create log files for tasks with names like SecurityAuth-joeuser.log.