[HDFS-15339] TestHDFSCLI fails for user names with the dot/dash character

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.2.2, 3.3.1, 3.4.0
• Component/s: test
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Yan Xiaole
• Reporter: Yan Xiaole
• Created: 07/May/20 02:39
• Updated: 10/Jun/21 07:43
• Resolved: 07/May/20 19:34

Description

testHDFSConf.xml uses regexes 

[a-zA-z0-9]*

to match the username in some test cases.

This by far does not cover the space of possible OS user names. For us, it fails for a user name containing '.'.

Similar to HDFS-5821, we propose to use the macro USERNAME.