[HIVE-7416] provide context information to authorization checkPrivileges api call

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.14.0
• Component/s: Authorization, SQLStandardAuthorization
• Assignee: Thejas Nair
• Reporter: Thejas Nair
• Created: 15/Jul/14 20:38
• Updated: 13/Nov/14 19:40
• Resolved: 18/Jul/14 18:19

Description

Context information such as request ip address, unique string for session, and original sql command string are useful for audit logging from the authorization implementations.
Authorization implementations can also choose to log authorization success along with information about what policies matched and the context information.

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