Hi Ranger Users,

Few more questions:

   - I enabled auditing for a HDFS resource */demo/card_data* and added
   policy that only a specific group can access this. As *hdfs* is
   superuser in hadoop world, hdfs can bypass the rules set by ranger. But
   when I checked the auditing section for this HDFS resource
   */demo/card_data*, *hdfs *users audit logs were not found. In fact, no
   audit logs are captured for any access done by *hdfs* user. What is the
   expected behaviour?
   - If there is a global policy which states */demo/* *recursively has
   *public* access, along with a policy which states that */demo/card_data*
   is accessible only to *hdusr*, then a global policy is applied and
   anyone can access */demo *resource recursively. What is the expected
   behaviour?
   - Can i somehow have negation condition which overriders all policies.
   Say */demo *had global access policy and other policy states except
   *hdfs* supergroup every user should be able to access the HDFS resource.

Thanks in advance!

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 6:17 AM, Suraj Nayak <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks Loïc for the quick response! So, to protect PII information being
> accessed from admins encryption is the way ahead. Right?
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 5:55 AM, Chanel Loïc <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>  Hi Suraj Nayak,
>>
>>
>>
>> As Hadoop authorizations run the same way than Unix ones, *hdfs* is the
>> equivalent of super user in Linux.
>>
>> So basically yes *hdfs* can bypass any rule/policy set by Ranger as it
>> has all the rights on the cluster.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Loïc
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *De :* Suraj Nayak [mailto:[email protected]]
>> *Envoyé :* jeudi 4 juin 2015 14:48
>> *À :* [email protected]
>> *Objet :* hdfs user can bypass policy in ranger
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Ranger Users,
>>
>>
>>
>> Am new to Ranger. What I tried was, I created a HDFS policy for a file
>> created by user say *hdusr. *The policy states only hdusr can access.
>> Ranger behaves perfectly well by denying access to this hdfs file resource
>> for all users other than *hdusr* except *hdfs* user.
>>
>>
>>
>> Does this mean that *hdfs *superuser can bypass the policy and open,
>> rename and delete a file which is protected by Ranger policy?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance :)
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Suraj Nayak M
>>
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