[HADOOP-8152] Expand public APIs for security library classes

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0-alpha
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0-alpha
• Component/s: security
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Aaron Myers
• Reporter: Aaron Myers
• Created: 08/Mar/12 00:11
• Updated: 23/May/12 20:15
• Resolved: 24/Apr/12 04:01

Description

Currently projects like Hive and HBase use UserGroupInformation and SecurityUtil methods. Both of these classes are marked LimitedPrivate(HDFS,MR) but should probably be marked more generally public.

Issue Links

• is related to: MAPREDUCE-1651 Public Cluster#getDelegationToken() method returns private implementation class