[HDFS-1755] Hdfs Federation: The BPOfferService must always connect to namenode as the login user.

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Federation Branch
• Fix Version/s: Federation Branch
• Component/s: namenode
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Release Note: Committed to the branch.
• Assignee: Jitendra Nath Pandey
• Reporter: Jitendra Nath Pandey
• Created: 14/Mar/11 23:03
• Updated: 16/Mar/11 22:24
• Resolved: 16/Mar/11 22:24

Description

The BPOfferService thread when started, normally connects to the namenode as the login user. But in case of refreshNamenodes a new BPOfferService may be started in the context of an rpc call where the user is dfsadmin. In such a case the connection to the namenode will fail.