[HADOOP-10345] Sanitize the the inputs (groups and hosts) for the proxyuser configuration

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.5.0
• Component/s: security
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Benoy Antony
• Reporter: Benoy Antony
• Created: 13/Feb/14 20:22
• Updated: 15/Aug/14 05:39
• Resolved: 31/Mar/14 20:55

Description

Currently there are no input cleansing done on hadoop.proxyuser.<user-name>.groups and hadoop.proxyuser.<user-name>.hosts .
It will be an improvement to trim each value, remove duplicate and empty values during init/refresh.