Author: brandonli Date: Mon Aug 4 21:34:55 2014 New Revision: 1615804 URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1615804 Log: Merging change r1615802 from branch-2
Modified: hadoop/common/branches/branch-2.5/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/site/apt/HdfsNfsGateway.apt.vm Modified: hadoop/common/branches/branch-2.5/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/site/apt/HdfsNfsGateway.apt.vm URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hadoop/common/branches/branch-2.5/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/site/apt/HdfsNfsGateway.apt.vm?rev=1615804&r1=1615803&r2=1615804&view=diff ============================================================================== --- hadoop/common/branches/branch-2.5/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/site/apt/HdfsNfsGateway.apt.vm (original) +++ hadoop/common/branches/branch-2.5/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/site/apt/HdfsNfsGateway.apt.vm Mon Aug 4 21:34:55 2014 @@ -47,18 +47,21 @@ HDFS NFS Gateway The NFS-gateway uses proxy user to proxy all the users accessing the NFS mounts. In non-secure mode, the user running the gateway is the proxy user, while in secure mode the user in Kerberos keytab is the proxy user. Suppose the proxy user is 'nfsserver' - and users belonging to the groups 'nfs-users1' - and 'nfs-users2' use the NFS mounts, then in core-site.xml of the NameNode, the following + and users belonging to the groups 'users-group1' + and 'users-group2' use the NFS mounts, then in core-site.xml of the NameNode, the following two properities must be set and only NameNode needs restart after the configuration change (NOTE: replace the string 'nfsserver' with the proxy user name in your cluster): ---- <property> <name>hadoop.proxyuser.nfsserver.groups</name> - <value>nfs-users1,nfs-users2</value> + <value>root,users-group1,users-group2</value> <description> - The 'nfsserver' user is allowed to proxy all members of the 'nfs-users1' and - 'nfs-users2' groups. Set this to '*' to allow nfsserver user to proxy any group. + The 'nfsserver' user is allowed to proxy all members of the 'users-group1' and + 'users-group2' groups. Note that in most cases you will need to include the + group "root" because the user "root" (which usually belonges to "root" group) will + generally be the user that initially executes the mount on the NFS client system. + Set this to '*' to allow nfsserver user to proxy any group. </description> </property> ----