[HADOOP-8561] Introduce HADOOP_PROXY_USER for secure impersonation in child hadoop client processes

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.3-alpha, 0.23.6, 1.1.2
• Component/s: security
• Target Version/s: 1.1.2
• Assignee: Yu Gao
• Reporter: Luke Lu
• Created: 05/Jul/12 10:08
• Updated: 03/Sep/14 23:22
• Resolved: 16/Dec/12 02:54

Description

To solve the problem for an authenticated user to type hadoop shell commands in a web console, we can introduce an HADOOP_PROXY_USER environment variable to allow proper impersonation in the child hadoop client processes.

Issue Links

• duplicates: HADOOP-6457 Set Hadoop User/Group by System properties or environment variables