[HADOOP-10665] Make Hadoop Authentication Handler loads case in-sensitive

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.5.0
• Component/s: security
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Benoy Antony
• Reporter: Benoy Antony
• Created: 05/Jun/14 19:39
• Updated: 15/Aug/14 05:39
• Resolved: 24/Jun/14 10:33

Description

The authentication mechanism for http specified via hadoop.http.authentication.type is matched in in a case sensitive way. If one specifies the type

{simple,kerberos}

in the wrong case, the following exception is thrown .

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Simple
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)
at org.apache.hadoop.security.authentication.server.AuthenticationFilter.init(AuthenticationFilter.java:148)
... 24 more

I believe , it is safe to ignore case during this comparison.