[HIVE-5402] StorageBasedAuthorizationProvider is not correctly able to determine that it is running from client-side

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.12.0
• Component/s: Authorization
• Assignee: Sushanth Sowmyan
• Reporter: Sushanth Sowmyan
• Created: 30/Sep/13 23:41
• Updated: 05/May/14 09:45
• Resolved: 05/Oct/13 09:54

Description

HIVE-5048 tried to change the StorageBasedAuthorizationProvider (SBAP) so that it could be run from the client side as well.

However, there is a bug that causes SBAP to incorrectly conclude that it's running from the metastore-side when it's actually running from the client-side that causes it to throw a IllegalStateException claiming the warehouse variable isn't set.

Issue Links

• is related to: HIVE-5048 StorageBasedAuthorization provider causes an NPE when asked to authorize from client side.
• is related to: HIVE-3705 Adding authorization capability to the metastore