Details
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Improvement
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Status: Open
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Major
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Resolution: Unresolved
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2.6.0
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None
Description
Currently Hadoop KMS has implemented ACL for keys and the per key ACL are stored in the configuration file kms-acls.xml.
The management of ACL in configuration file would not be easy in enterprise usage and it is put difficulties for backup and recovery.
It is ideal to store the ACL for keys in the key meta data similar to what file system ACL does. In this way, the backup and recovery that works on keys should work for ACL for keys too.
On the other hand, with the ACL in meta data, the ACL of each key can be easily manipulate with API or command line tool and take effect instantly. This is very important for enterprise level access control management. This feature can be addressed by separate JIRA. While with the configuration file, these would be hard to provide.
