[MAPREDUCE-2376] test-task-controller fails if run as a userid < 1000

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.20.205.0, 0.22.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.1.0, 0.22.1
• Component/s: task-controller, test
• Target Version/s: 1.1.0, 0.22.1, 2.0.3-alpha
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Todd Lipcon
• Reporter: Todd Lipcon
• Created: 11/Mar/11 20:40
• Updated: 17/Oct/12 21:59

Description

test-task-controller tries to verify that the task-controller won't run on behalf of users with uid < 1000. This makes the test fail when running in some test environments - eg our hudson jobs internally run as a system user with uid 101.

Issue Links

• is blocked by: MAPREDUCE-2178 Race condition in LinuxTaskController permissions handling
• is depended upon by: HADOOP-8357 Restore security in Hadoop 0.22 branch
• relates to: HADOOP-8499 Lower min.user.id to 500 for the tests