[HADOOP-9134] Unified server side user groups mapping service

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.3-alpha
• Component/s: security
• Labels: BB2015-05-TBR
• Tags: group mapping
• Assignee: Kai Zheng
• Reporter: Kai Zheng
• Created: 11/Dec/12 22:40
• Updated: 06/May/15 03:31

Description

This proposes to provide/expose the server side user group mapping service in NameNode to clients so that user group mapping can be kept in the single place and thus unified in all nodes and clients.