[AMBARI-8447] Update ConfigurationResourceProvider to handle Kerberos Administrative Credentials as a special case

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: ambari-server
• Labels: api configuration kerberos session
• Epic Link: Ambari Automated Kerberization
• Assignee: Tom Beerbower
• Reporter: Robert Levas
• Created: 25/Nov/14 18:38
• Updated: 09/Dec/14 01:53
• Resolved: 09/Dec/14 00:59

Description

Certain configuration settings need to handled in special-case scenarios. For example short-lived settings to be stored per request or session scope. Or secure data the must not be stored in the Ambari database.

An example of this type of data is the administrative credentials used to manage a KDC server. This configuration data is short lived (per session) and sensitive. Therefore, it must be handled as a special case.

To determine that a configuration request contains this data, the type of the configuration is to be used. For this specific case, a configuration type of kerberos_admin_identity will trigger the special case to secure and store the administrative credentials in a file. Ideally if the session data was available (see AMBARI-8426) a session-based encryption key would be created and stored in session. That key would then be used to encrypt the data from this request. The encrypted data and key would then be retrieved from the session, decrypted, and used as needed.

Issue Links

• requires: AMBARI-8426 Provide access to session from resource handler/provider
• links to: Code Review