[HIVE-14100] Adding a new logged_in_user() UDF which returns the user provided when connecting

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.0
• Component/s: Authentication, Beeline
• Assignee: Peter Vary
• Reporter: Peter Vary
• Created: 27/Jun/16 13:11
• Updated: 21/Jul/17 17:55
• Resolved: 30/Sep/16 18:32

Description

There is an existing current_user() UDF which returns the user provided by the configured hive.security.authenticator.manager. This is often the same as the user provided on connection, but some cases, like HadoopDefaultAuthenticator this could be different.

Some cases we need the logged in user independently of the configured authenticator, so a new UDF is created which provides this - returns the SessionState.get().getUserName().

Issue Links

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