[SPARK-5493] Support proxy users under kerberos

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.3.0
• Component/s: Spark Core
• Target Version/s: 1.3.0
• Assignee: Marcelo Masiero Vanzin
• Reporter: Brock Noland
• Created: 30/Jan/15 03:39
• Updated: 10/Jan/17 15:56
• Resolved: 11/Feb/15 01:19

Description

When using kerberos, services may want to use spark-submit to submit jobs as a separate user. For example a service like hive might want to submit jobs as a client user.

Issue Links

• is related to: HIVE-9671 Support Impersonation [Spark Branch]
• is related to: SPARK-19143 API in Spark for distributing new delegation tokens (Improve delegation token handling in secure clusters)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #4405 (vanzin)