[RANGER-686] Allow specifying keytabs in Ranger repositories

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.6.0
• Assignee: Ankita Sinha
• Reporter: Velmurugan Periasamy
• Created: 07/Oct/15 23:43
• Updated: 09/Jul/16 03:22
• Resolved: 09/Jul/16 03:22

Description

PROBLEM: Currently you have to specify a principal and password when configuring Ranger repositories. It would be useful to allow specifying a principal and keytab instead of password for authenticating the lookup-client user.

USE CASE: Sites which have regular password expiration will experience the lookup clients fail routinely. Also specifying keytab instead of password is considered a best practice.

Issue Links

• is related to: RANGER-867 Add Kerberos support for ranger admin and clients