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Published inAug 2012
PublisherPackt
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Yifeng Jiang
Yifeng Jiang
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Yifeng Jiang

Yifeng Jiang is a Hadoop and HBase Administrator and Developer at Rakutenthe largest e-commerce company in Japan. After graduating from the University of Science and Technology of China with a B.S. in Information Management Systems, he started his career as a professional software engineer, focusing on Java development. In 2008, he started looking over the Hadoop project. In 2009, he led the development of his previous company's display advertisement data infrastructure using Hadoop and Hive. In 2010, he joined his current employer, where he designed and implemented the Hadoop- and HBase-based, large-scale item ranking system. He is also one of the members of the Hadoop team in the company, which operates several Hadoop/HBase clusters
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Configuring HDFS security with Kerberos


Newer releases of Hadoop (0.20.203 and above) support an optional Kerberos authentication of clients. This security support includes secure HDFS and secure MapReduce configurations.

The motivation for Hadoop security is not to defend against hackers, as all large Hadoop clusters are behind firewalls that only allow employees to access them. Its purpose is simply to allow storing sensitive data such as financial data on a shared cluster.

Prior releases of Hadoop already had file ownership and permissions in HDFS; the limitation was that they had no mechanisms for verifying user identity. With this Kerberos security support, user identities are verified by Kerberos, and only authenticated users are allowed to access the HDFS cluster.

As a secure HBase access is expected to be running on top of a secured HDFS cluster, setting up HDFS security is a prerequisite for HBase security configuration. In this recipe, we will focus on how to configure HDFS security...

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Published in: Aug 2012Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781849517140

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Yifeng Jiang

Yifeng Jiang is a Hadoop and HBase Administrator and Developer at Rakutenthe largest e-commerce company in Japan. After graduating from the University of Science and Technology of China with a B.S. in Information Management Systems, he started his career as a professional software engineer, focusing on Java development. In 2008, he started looking over the Hadoop project. In 2009, he led the development of his previous company's display advertisement data infrastructure using Hadoop and Hive. In 2010, he joined his current employer, where he designed and implemented the Hadoop- and HBase-based, large-scale item ranking system. He is also one of the members of the Hadoop team in the company, which operates several Hadoop/HBase clusters
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