[SPARK-18061] Spark Thriftserver needs to create SPNego principal

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.6.1, 2.0.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Assignee: Saisai Shao
• Reporter: Chandana Mirashi
• Created: 22/Oct/16 00:45
• Updated: 06/Sep/17 01:43
• Resolved: 06/Sep/17 01:40

Description

Spark Thriftserver when running in HTTP mode with Kerberos enabled gives a 401 authentication error when receiving beeline HTTP request (with end user as kerberos principal). The similar command works with Hive Thriftserver.

What we find is Hive thriftserver CLI service creates both hive service and SPNego principal when kerberos is enabled whereas Spark Thriftserver
only creates hive service principal.

CLIService.java

if (UserGroupInformation.isSecurityEnabled()) {
      try {
        HiveAuthFactory.loginFromKeytab(hiveConf);
        this.serviceUGI = Utils.getUGI();
      } catch (IOException e) {
        throw new ServiceException("Unable to login to kerberos with given principal/keytab", e);
      } catch (LoginException e) {
        throw new ServiceException("Unable to login to kerberos with given principal/keytab", e);
      }

      // Also try creating a UGI object for the SPNego principal
      String principal = hiveConf.getVar(ConfVars.HIVE_SERVER2_SPNEGO_PRINCIPAL);
      String keyTabFile = hiveConf.getVar(ConfVars.HIVE_SERVER2_SPNEGO_KEYTAB);
      if (principal.isEmpty() || keyTabFile.isEmpty()) {
        LOG.info("SPNego httpUGI not created, spNegoPrincipal: " + principal +
            ", ketabFile: " + keyTabFile);
      } else {
        try {
          this.httpUGI = HiveAuthFactory.loginFromSpnegoKeytabAndReturnUGI(hiveConf);
          LOG.info("SPNego httpUGI successfully created.");
        } catch (IOException e) {
          LOG.warn("SPNego httpUGI creation failed: ", e);
        }
      }
    }

SparkSQLCLIService.scala

if (UserGroupInformation.isSecurityEnabled) {
      try {
        HiveAuthFactory.loginFromKeytab(hiveConf)
        sparkServiceUGI = Utils.getUGI()
        setSuperField(this, "serviceUGI", sparkServiceUGI)
      } catch {
        case e @ (_: IOException | _: LoginException) =>
          throw new ServiceException("Unable to login to kerberos with given principal/keytab", e)
      }
    }

The patch will add missing SPNego principal to Spark Thriftserver.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: SPARK-21407 Support spnego for ThriftServer thrift/http auth
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #15594 (cmirash)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #18628 (jerryshao)