[HADOOP-13011] Clearly Document the Password Details for Keystore-based Credential Providers

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.8.0, 3.0.0-alpha1
• Component/s: documentation
• Assignee: Larry McCay
• Reporter: Larry McCay
• Created: 09/Apr/16 13:53
• Updated: 30/Aug/16 01:16
• Resolved: 22/Apr/16 05:12

Description

HADOOP-12942 discusses the unobviousness of the use of a default password for the keystores for keystore-based credential providers. This patch adds documentation to the CredentialProviderAPI.md that describes the different types of credential providers available and the password management details of the keystore-based ones.