Starting in CDH 5.3, Apache Sentry integration with HDFS saves admins a lot of work by centralizing access control permissions across components that utilize HDFS.
It’s been more than a year and a half since a couple of my colleagues here at Cloudera shipped the first version of Sentry (now Apache Sentry (incubating)). This project filled a huge security gap in the Apache Hadoop ecosystem by bringing truly secure and dependable fine grained authorization to the Hadoop ecosystem and provided out-of-the-box integration for Apache Hive.
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