[HBASE-12231] REST gateway authentication should be independent of Hadoop/HBase security configuration.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Abandoned
• Affects Version/s: 0.98.6.1
• Component/s: REST
• Labels: authentication security
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Aditya Kishore
• Created: 10/Oct/14 22:25
• Updated: 17/Jun/22 17:38
• Resolved: 15/Jun/22 00:50

Description

It is reasonable that a user would want to secure the HBase REST interface without having to incur the cost of securing the entire HBase/Hadoop ecosystem.

The current implementation does not allow that and needs to be modified.