Thanks for your response Chris.
>> I'm curious how this is a new problem after migration from HttpFs to
WebHDFS
With HttpFs, gateway admin users are allowed to proxy some limited set of
users.
They are not allowed to mock a root/dfsadmin user and do some fatal stuff
("rmr /").
With WebHDFS, thats
Hello Laxman,
I'm curious how this is a new problem after migration from HttpFs to
WebHDFS. With the HttpFs deployment architecture, were you somehow
proxying only the read-only operations?
I would think this kind of thing could be achieved by writing a custom
authentication filter, deploying th
Hi,
We run a cluster with security set to simple.
Also, to some users, we had provided http access to HDFS via HttpFS
gateways.
However, this is not scaling and we are suffering from HttpFs gateway
choking problem. So, we wanted to enable WebHDFS directly on hadoop. But
this brings in the problem
