Hey David, Thanks. Yep - that's the easy part. Let me clarify. Consider that we have: 1. A Hadoop cluster running without Kerberos 2. A number of services contacting that hadoop cluster and retrieving data from it using WebHDFS.
Clearly the services don't need to login to WebHDFS using credentials because the cluster isn't kerberized just yet. Now what happens when we enable Kerberos on the cluster? We still need to allow those services to contact the cluster without credentials until we can upgrade them. Otherwise we'll have downtime. So what can we do? As a possible solution, is there any way to allow unprotected access from just those machines until we can upgrade them? Thanks, Ben ________________________________ From: David Morel [dmo...@amakuru.net] Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2016 2:33 PM To: Benjamin Ross Cc: user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: Question regarding WebHDFS security Le 5 juil. 2016 7:42 PM, "Benjamin Ross" <br...@lattice-engines.com<mailto:br...@lattice-engines.com>> a écrit : > > All, > We're planning the rollout of kerberizing our hadoop cluster. The issue is > that we have several single tenant services that rely on contacting the HDFS > cluster over WebHDFS without credentials. So, the concern is that once we > kerberize the cluster, we will no longer be able to access it without > credentials from these single-tenant systems, which results in a painful > upgrade dependency. > > Any suggestions for dealing with this problem in a simple way? > > If not, any suggestion for a better forum to ask this question? > > Thanks in advance, > Ben It's usually not super-hard to wrap your http calls with a module that handles Kerberos, depending on what language you use. For instance https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Hadoop::WebHDFS::LWP does this. David Click here<https://www.mailcontrol.com/sr/MZbqvYs5QwJvpeaetUwhCQ==> to report this email as spam. This message has been scanned for malware by Websense. www.websense.com
