[HCATALOG-69] Fix token usage from HCat

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.4
• Assignee: Francis Christopher Liu
• Reporter: Sushanth Sowmyan
• Created: 22/Jul/11 23:27
• Updated: 17/May/12 01:20
• Resolved: 13/Apr/12 17:54

Description

We need to fix the following issues in HCat

+ Token cancellation semantics of the Hive token needs storing the signature - rework to remove this
+ Likewise, there's no good need for the token signature and tokenstrform of the JobTracker token, and that might actually be a security problem there. That needs to be reworked to just scan tokens in current scope, and if found, and we have a flag set to indicate that it was a token we fetched, then we cancel as-is. Current code mimics hive-token behaviour and needs to be changed.