[IMPALA-2177] Implement End-User Impersonation for Impala

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: Impala 2.2
• Component/s: Security
• Labels: security
• Target Version: Product Backlog
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Perry Orne
• Created: 05/Aug/15 13:20
• Updated: 23/Dec/20 21:45

Description

A customer has requested a feature enhancement on End-User Impersonation in Impala and is indicating this is a required feature for them.

The customer is requesting to have end-user impersonation in Impala so that, as an example, when objects are created through interfaces like Hue->Query Editors->Impala that the resulting HDFS permissions (owner and group) are those of the originating End-User and not the Impala user.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: IMPALA-7052 Impersonate the real user in reading/writing HDFS