[HADOOP-6584] Provide Kerberized SSL encryption for webservices

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.22.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Jakob Homan
• Reporter: Jakob Homan
• Created: 22/Feb/10 02:12
• Updated: 12/Dec/11 06:20
• Resolved: 03/Jul/10 00:03

Description

Some web services should be authenticated via SSL backed by Kerberos, both to provide cross-cluster secure communication and to provide intra-cluster server authentication for services such as the

{Name,SecondaryName,Backup,Checkpoint}

node's image transfer and balancer.

Issue Links

• incorporates: HDFS-1004 Update NN to support Kerberized SSL from HADOOP-6584
• incorporates: HDFS-1275 Enabling Kerberized SSL on NameNode
• is related to: HADOOP-4487 Security features for Hadoop
• relates to: HDFS-994 Provide methods for obtaining delegation token from Namenode for hftp and other uses