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Published inAug 2012
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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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HBase security configuration


As HBase becomes more and more popular, different users and groups may store more data in a shared HBase cluster. You might not like all users having full permission to every HBase table. This adds risks to your data, for example, security risks or missed data operation.

Newer HBase releases (0.92 and above) have Kerberos-based security support. With this, user identities are verified by Kerberos, and only authenticated users are allowed to access data in a secured HBase cluster.

We will describe how to configure secure client access to HBase in this recipe.

Getting ready

Make sure you are using the security-enabled HBase release. If you are downloading from the official HBase site, the filename should look like hbase-0.92.1-security.tar.gz.

We assume that you have a working Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC)  and have realm set up. For more information about installing and configuring Kerberos, see the Kerberos authentication for Hadoop and HBase recipe...

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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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