[HBASE-12168] Document Rest gateway SPNEGO-based authentication for client

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: documentation, REST, security
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Jerry He
• Reporter: Jerry He
• Created: 03/Oct/14 16:30
• Updated: 17/Jun/22 17:32
• Resolved: 12/Feb/15 04:55

Description

After HBASE-5050, we seem to support SPNEGO-based authentication from client on Rest gateway. But I had a tough time finding the info.
The support is not mentioned in Security book. In the security book, we still have:

It should be possible for clients to authenticate with the HBase cluster through the REST gateway in a pass-through manner via SPEGNO HTTP authentication. This is future work.

The release note in HBASE-5050 seems to be obsolete as well. e.g.
hbase.rest.kerberos.spnego.principal seems to be obsolete.

Issue Links

• is related to: HBASE-5050 [rest] SPNEGO-based authentication