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Investigate Local security manager support

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At some point in the past, the Local Security manager that allows you to enter Linux creds was removed. Investigate why, and ensure the docs and config manager are updated to match

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Russ Whitehead May 9, 2019 at 8:25 PM

Discussed with , and we agreed that it does not make sense to have a security manager that requires the user to have root privileges. Will use this Jira to remove support for Local Auth

Russ Whitehead May 17, 2018 at 2:11 PM

I discovered that you have to be running as root to query the Linux password file (getpwnam/getspnam), and the HPCC user does not have these privileges.  Not sure of the worthiness of introducing this new security manager plugin

Russ Whitehead April 30, 2018 at 6:22 PM

Please tag this for 7.2

Russ Whitehead March 29, 2018 at 2:19 PM

I will use this JIRA to introduce a pluggable LocalAuthentication pluggable security manager

Rodrigo Pastrana March 28, 2018 at 1:27 PM

There might be some value to this security type outside of the need to secure configmgr. Since you found that it would be easy to re-implement and it's currently documented as a feature I would move forward.
As far as securing configmgr, we're going to need something similar but this doesn't seem to be a 100% fit.

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https://github.com/hpcc-systems/HPCC-Platform/pull/12536

Created March 19, 2018 at 3:28 PM
Updated May 22, 2019 at 8:08 AM
Resolved May 22, 2019 at 8:08 AM