[HADOOP-9643] org.apache.hadoop.security.SecurityUtil calls toUpperCase(Locale.getDefault()) as well as toLowerCase(Locale.getDefault()) on hadoop.security.authentication value.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.5-alpha
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.0-beta
• Component/s: security
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Mark Miller
• Reporter: Mark Miller
• Created: 14/Jun/13 04:10
• Updated: 27/Aug/13 22:06
• Resolved: 19/Jul/13 19:05

Description

With the wrong locale, something like hadoop.security.authentication=simple will cause an IllegalArgumentException because "simple".toUpperCase(Locale.getDefault()) may not equal SIMPLE.

Issue Links

• breaks: SOLR-4916 Add support to write and read Solr index files and transaction log files to and from HDFS.