org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.security
Interface HiveAuthenticationProvider

All Superinterfaces:

org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configurable

All Known Subinterfaces:

HiveMetastoreAuthenticationProvider

All Known Implementing Classes:

HadoopDefaultAuthenticator, HadoopDefaultMetastoreAuthenticator, ProxyUserAuthenticator, SessionStateConfigUserAuthenticator, SessionStateUserAuthenticator

public interface HiveAuthenticationProvider
extends org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configurable

HiveAuthenticationProvider is an interface for authentication. The implementation should return userNames and groupNames.

Method Summary

void	destroy()
List<String>	getGroupNames()
String	getUserName()
void	setSessionState(SessionState ss) This function is meant to be used only for hive internal implementations of this interface.

Methods inherited from interface org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configurable

getConf, setConf

Method Detail

getUserName

String getUserName()

getGroupNames

List<String> getGroupNames()

destroy

void destroy()
             throws HiveException

Throws:

HiveException

setSessionState

void setSessionState(SessionState ss)

This function is meant to be used only for hive internal implementations of this interface. SessionState is not a public interface.

Parameters:

ss - SessionState that created this instance