[HADOOP-4348] Adding service-level authorization to Hadoop - ASF JIRA

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Type: New Feature
Status: Closed
Priority: Major
Resolution: Fixed
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: 0.20.0
Component/s: security
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Description

Service-level authorization is the initial checking done by a Hadoop service to find out if a connecting client is a pre-defined user of that service. If not, the connection or service request will be declined. This feature allows services to limit access to a clearly defined group of users. For example, service-level authorization allows "world-readable" files on a HDFS cluster to be readable only by the pre-defined users of that cluster, not by anyone who can connect to the cluster. It also allows a M/R cluster to define its group of users so that only those users can submit jobs to it.

Here is an initial list of requirements I came up with.

1. Users of a cluster is defined by a flat list of usernames and groups. A client is a user of the cluster if and only if her username is listed in the flat list or one of her groups is explicitly listed in the flat list. Nested groups are not supported.

2. The flat list is stored in a conf file and pushed to every cluster node so that services can access them.

3. Services will monitor the modification of the conf file periodically (5 mins interval by default) and reload the list if needed.

4. Checking against the flat list is done as early as possible and before any other authorization checking. Both HDFS and M/R clusters will implement this feature.

5. This feature can be switched off and is off by default.

I'm aware of interests in pulling user data from LDAP. For this JIRA, I suggest we implement it using a conf file. Additional data sources may be supported via new JIRA's.