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

All Superinterfaces:

org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configurable

All Known Subinterfaces:

HiveMetastoreAuthenticationProvider

All Known Implementing Classes:

DummyAuthenticator, HadoopDefaultAuthenticator, HadoopDefaultMetastoreAuthenticator, InjectableDummyAuthenticator

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()

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