HADOOP-12752. Improve diagnostics/use of envvar/sysprop credential propagation. Contributed by Steve Loughran.

hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt

@@ -1108,6 +1108,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-12759. RollingFileSystemSink should eagerly rotate directories.
     (Daniel Templeton via wang)
 
+    HADOOP-12752. Improve diagnostics/use of envvar/sysprop credential
+    propagation (Steve Loughran via cnauroth)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HADOOP-11785. Reduce the number of listStatus operation in distcp

hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/UserGroupInformation.java

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 import static org.apache.hadoop.util.PlatformName.IBM_JAVA;
 
 import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableException;
 import java.security.AccessControlContext;
@@ -54,8 +55,6 @@
 import javax.security.auth.login.LoginException;
 import javax.security.auth.spi.LoginModule;
 
-import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
-import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
 import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceStability;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
@@ -75,6 +74,8 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.util.Time;
 
 import com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 /**
  * User and group information for Hadoop.
@@ -85,7 +86,9 @@
 @InterfaceAudience.LimitedPrivate({"HDFS", "MapReduce", "HBase", "Hive", "Oozie"})
 @InterfaceStability.Evolving
 public class UserGroupInformation {
-  private static final Log LOG =  LogFactory.getLog(UserGroupInformation.class);
+  private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(
+      UserGroupInformation.class);
+
   /**
    * Percentage of the ticket window to use before we renew ticket.
    */
@@ -848,8 +851,19 @@ static void loginUserFromSubject(Subject subject) throws IOException {
         // Load the token storage file and put all of the tokens into the
         // user. Don't use the FileSystem API for reading since it has a lock
         // cycle (HADOOP-9212).
+        File source = new File(fileLocation);
+        LOG.debug("Reading credentials from location set in {}: {}",
+            HADOOP_TOKEN_FILE_LOCATION,
+            source.getCanonicalPath());
+        if (!source.isFile()) {
+          throw new FileNotFoundException("Source file "
+              + source.getCanonicalPath() + " from "
+              + HADOOP_TOKEN_FILE_LOCATION
+              + " not found");
+        }
         Credentials cred = Credentials.readTokenStorageFile(
-            new File(fileLocation), conf);
+            source, conf);
+        LOG.debug("Loaded {} tokens", cred.numberOfTokens());
         loginUser.addCredentials(cred);
       }
       loginUser.spawnAutoRenewalThreadForUserCreds();