[HIVE-13085] Need an API / configuration parameter to find out the authenticated user from beeline

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Assignee: Oleksiy Sayankin
• Reporter: Oleksiy Sayankin
• Created: 18/Feb/16 10:03
• Updated: 02/Mar/18 09:40
• Resolved: 02/Mar/18 09:40

Description

This request has come from the customer who wanted an API / configuration parameter to identify the authenticated user from the beeline. This is similar to the request done in the thread below:

https://community.hortonworks.com/questions/2620/hadoop-environment-variable-or-configuration-varia.html

But this would not be a feasible option for the requestor. So here the general ask is once the user is logged in to the beeline, they wanted to identify who this user is and then use this information to enforce the ACLs on the tables through the customer's custom code.

Issue Links

• is related to: HIVE-9143 select user(), current_user()