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  1. Hadoop Common
  2. HADOOP-6589

Better error messages for RPC clients when authentication fails

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • None
    • 0.21.0
    • ipc, security
    • None
    • Reviewed

    Description

      Currently when authentication fails, RPC server simply closes the connection. Sending certain error messages back to the client may help user debug the problem. Of course, those error messages that are sent back shouldn't compromise system security.

      Attachments

        1. c6589-06.patch
          19 kB
          Kan Zhang
        2. c6589-y20.patch
          20 kB
          Owen O'Malley

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          is related to

          New Feature - A new feature of the product, which has yet to be developed. HADOOP-4487 Security features for Hadoop

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

          New Feature - A new feature of the product, which has yet to be developed. HADOOP-6419 Change RPC layer to support SASL based mutual authentication

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

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