[HIVE-842] Authentication Infrastructure for Hive

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.7.0
• Component/s: Authentication, Security, Server Infrastructure
• Assignee: Todd Lipcon
• Reporter: Edward Capriolo
• Created: 18/Sep/09 18:01
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:29
• Resolved: 15/Dec/10 18:45

Description

This issue deals with the authentication (user name,password) infrastructure. Not the authorization components that specify what a user should be able to do.

Issue Links

• blocks: HIVE-1696 Add delegation token support to metastore
• depends upon: HIVE-1526 Hive should depend on a release version of Thrift
• is related to: THRIFT-889 Add SPNEGO support to Thrift HTTP transport
• is related to: HIVE-78 Authorization infrastructure for Hive
• is related to: THRIFT-876 Add SASL support
• relates to: HIVE-2743 Enable SASL mode for HiveServer
• relates to: HIVE-1264 Make Hive work with Hadoop security
• relates to: HIVE-1526 Hive should depend on a release version of Thrift

Sub-Tasks

• Add delegation token support to metastore: Closed