[MESOS-8172] Agent --authenticate_http_executors commandline flag unrecognized in 1.4.0

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.0
• Component/s: executor, security

Environment

Ubuntu 16.04.3 with meso 1.4.0 compiled from source tarball.

• Assignee: Greg Mann
• Reporter: Dan Leary
• Created: 06/Nov/17 18:14
• Updated: 29/Apr/19 09:27

Description

Apparently the mesos-agent authenticate_http_executors commandline arg was introduced in 1.3.0 by MESOS-6365. But running "mesos-agent --authenticate_http_executors ..." in 1.4.0 yields

Failed to load unknown flag 'authenticate_http_executors'

...followed by a usage report that does not include "--authenticate_http_executors".
Presumably this means executor authentication is no longer configurable.
It is still documented at https://mesos.apache.org/documentation/latest/authentication/#agent