[HADOOP-7522] Abandon support for expanding ${user.name} in configs

• Type: Wish
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.23.0
• Component/s: conf
• Hadoop Flags: Incompatible change
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Aaron Myers
• Created: 06/Aug/11 00:50
• Updated: 07/Aug/11 10:54

Description

In practice, I find that the presence of ${user.name} in configs is rarely helpful, and often causes issues.