[HBASE-9227] RESTServer should handle the loginUser correctly

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.95.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.95.2
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Devaraj Das
• Reporter: Devaraj Das
• Created: 15/Aug/13 01:18
• Updated: 23/Sep/13 19:22
• Resolved: 15/Aug/13 19:08

Description

HBASE-8662 introduced a change by which the realUser in the method RESTServer.main() gets assigned to the loginUser only when the config hbase.rest.authentication.type is set to something (like "kerberos").

I think we should set the realUser to loginUser even when the config hbase.rest.authentication.type is null. Without that the regular (non-impersonated) accesses also fail.