Post written by Cloudera Software Engineer Aaron T. Myers.
Apache Hadoop has had methods of doing user authorization for some time. The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) has a permissions model similar to Unix to control file and directory access, and MapReduce has access control lists (ACLs) per job queue to control which users may submit jobs. These authorization schemes allow Hadoop users and administrators to specify exactly who may access Hadoop’s resources.
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