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

All Superinterfaces:

org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configurable, HiveAuthenticationProvider

All Known Implementing Classes:

HadoopDefaultMetastoreAuthenticator

public interface HiveMetastoreAuthenticationProvider
extends HiveAuthenticationProvider

HiveMetastoreAuthenticationProvider is an interface extension from HiveAuthenticationProvider for authentication from the metastore side. The implementation should return userNames and groupNames, and take care that if the metastore is running a particular command as a user, it returns that user.

Method Summary

void	setMetaStoreHandler(HiveMetaStore.HMSHandler handler) Allows invoker of HiveMetastoreAuthenticationProvider to send in a hive metastore handler that can be used to provide data for any authentication that needs to be done.

Methods inherited from interface org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.security.HiveAuthenticationProvider

destroy, getGroupNames, getUserName, setSessionState

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

getConf, setConf

Method Detail

setMetaStoreHandler

void setMetaStoreHandler(HiveMetaStore.HMSHandler handler)

Allows invoker of HiveMetastoreAuthenticationProvider to send in a hive metastore handler that can be used to provide data for any authentication that needs to be done.

Parameters:

handler -