[HADOOP-10469] ProxyUser improvements

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: security
• Assignee: Benoy Antony
• Reporter: Benoy Antony
• Created: 08/Apr/14 17:11
• Updated: 31/Oct/14 19:53
• Resolved: 31/Oct/14 19:53

Description

This is an umbrella jira which addresses few enhancements to proxyUser capability via sub tasks

Sub-Tasks

• Reduce the visibility of constants in ProxyUsers: Closed
• Remove unused parameter from ProxyUsers.authorize(): Closed
• Change synchronization mechanism in ProxyUsers to readwrite lock: Resolved
• Enable proxyuser specification to support list of users in addition to list of groups.: Closed
• Refactor proxyservers out of ProxyUsers: Closed
• Support pluggable mechanism to specify proxy user settings: Closed
• Support IP ranges (CIDR) in proxyuser.hosts: Closed
• Refactor Proxyusers to use AccessControlList: Closed