[HADOOP-9989] Bug introduced in HADOOP-9374, which parses the -tokenCacheFile as binary file but set it to the configuration as JSON file.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.0-beta
• Fix Version/s: 2.6.0
• Component/s: security, util

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise 6 with Sun Java 1.7 and IBM Java 1.6

• Target Version/s: 2.3.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Zhihai Xu
• Reporter: Jinghui Wang
• Created: 20/Sep/13 22:54
• Updated: 11/Feb/15 12:07
• Resolved: 10/Sep/14 05:28

Description

The code in JIRA HADOOP-9374's patch introduced a bug, where the value of the
tokenCacheFile parameter is being parsed as a binary file and set it to the
mapreduce.job.credentials.json parameter in GenericOptionsParser, which cannot be parsed by JobSubmitter when it gets the value.

Issue Links

• is related to: HADOOP-9374 Add tokens from -tokenCacheFile into UGI