[AMBARI-9829] Ranger usersync process needs to be run as root

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Assignee: Andrew Onischuk
• Reporter: Andrew Onischuk
• Created: 27/Feb/15 13:23
• Updated: 27/Feb/15 13:33
• Resolved: 27/Feb/15 13:29

Description

In HDP 2.2, ranger usersync process needs to be run as root.

Noticed that this commit makes the process to run as ranger user. It will
break the functionality.

<https://github.com/apache/ambari/commit/a5c7e2e7ff809c4608261275844d39cb015db
a44#diff-92ddc4f185e2df44f24e021f458beb2d>

Seeing the below error in usersync.log

26 Feb 2015 11:31:55 ERROR UnixAuthenticationService [main] - ERROR: Service: UnixAuthenticationService
java.io.FileNotFoundException: ./conf/cert/unixauthservice.jks (Permission denied)
at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:146)
at com.xasecure.authentication.UnixAuthenticationService.getFileInputStream(UnixAuthenticationService.java:271)
at com.xasecure.authentication.UnixAuthenticationService.startService(UnixAuthenticationService.java:185)
at com.xasecure.authentication.UnixAuthenticationService.run(UnixAuthenticationService.java:102)
at com.xasecure.authentication.UnixAuthenticationService.main(UnixAuthenticationService.java:88)
26 Feb 2015 11:31:55 INFO UnixAuthenticationService [main] - Service: UnixAuthenticationService - STOPPED.

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