[HDFS-4733] Make HttpFS username pattern configurable

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.4-alpha
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.0-beta
• Target Version/s: 2.1.0-beta
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Alejandro Abdelnur
• Reporter: Alejandro Abdelnur
• Created: 23/Apr/13 16:44
• Updated: 27/Aug/13 22:08
• Resolved: 29/Apr/13 18:08

Description

Continuing with the saga, valid usernames seem to be quite different across unix distributions. Now running into the case of a setup where they use full numeric names.

We should make the username pattern configurable via httpfs-site.xml