[SOLR-6915] SaslZkACLProvider and Kerberos Test Using MiniKdc

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 5.1, 6.0
• Component/s: SolrCloud
• Assignee: Gregory Chanan
• Reporter: Gregory Chanan
• Created: 06/Jan/15 01:22
• Updated: 09/May/16 18:51
• Resolved: 27/Jan/15 23:01

Description

We should provide a ZkACLProvider that requires SASL authentication. This provider will be useful for administration in a kerberos environment. In such an environment, the administrator wants solr to authenticate to zookeeper using SASL, since this is only way to authenticate with zookeeper via kerberos.

The authorization model in such a setup can vary, e.g. you can imagine a scenario where solr owns (is the only writer of) the non-config znodes, but some set of trusted users are allowed to modify the configs. It's hard to predict all the possibilities here, but one model that seems generally useful is to have a model where solr itself owns all the znodes and all actions that require changing the znodes are routed to Solr APIs. That seems simple and reasonable as a first version.

As for testing, I noticed while working on SOLR-6625 that we don't really have any infrastructure for testing kerberos integration in unit tests. Internally, I've been testing using kerberos-enabled VM clusters, but this isn't great since we won't notice any breakages until someone actually spins up a VM. So part of this JIRA is to provide some infrastructure for testing kerberos at the unit test level (using Hadoop's MiniKdc, HADOOP-9848).

Issue Links

• is related to: SOLR-7040 Kerberos tests fail on IBM J9
• is related to: SOLR-7598 Minikdc is broken for some locales
• is related to: SOLR-8544 SaslZkACLProviderTest is failing a lot on trunk because it leaks threads.
• relates to: ZOOKEEPER-2100 ZooKeeperSaslClient doesn't shut down Login thread
• relates to: SOLR-7628 Investigate not using apacheds-all jar
• requires: SOLR-6963 Upgrade hadoop version to 2.3