You should read the hadoop security design doc which you can find at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4487
HTH, +Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli Hortonworks Inc. http://hortonworks.com/ On Feb 21, 2013, at 11:02 AM, rohit sarewar wrote: > > I am looking for an explanation of Kerberos working with Hadoop cluster . > I need to know how KDC is used by hdfs and mapred. > > (Something like this :- An example of kerberos with mail server , > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD2Q-2ToloE) > > How the name node and data node are prone to attacks ? > What all types of attack can occur ? > > Please help! >