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Mastering Hadoop

Mastering Hadoop

By : Karanth
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Mastering Hadoop

Mastering Hadoop

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By: Karanth

Overview of this book

Do you want to broaden your Hadoop skill set and take your knowledge to the next level? Do you wish to enhance your knowledge of Hadoop to solve challenging data processing problems? Are your Hadoop jobs, Pig scripts, or Hive queries not working as fast as you intend? Are you looking to understand the benefits of upgrading Hadoop? If the answer is yes to any of these, this book is for you. It assumes novice-level familiarity with Hadoop.
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Authorization in Hadoop

Authorization involves restricting access to resources. Hadoop provides authorization for both HDFS and all Hadoop services. In this section, we will look at how authorization can be enabled in Hadoop to secure shared resources against illegitimate access.

Authorization in HDFS

The HDFS authorization model is very similar to the authorization model in a POSIX system. In POSIX, each resource—files and directories—is associated with an owner user and a group. HDFS is similar to this. Permissions are given to each of these identities separately. There are separate permissions for:

  • The owner of the resource
  • The users of the group that are associated with the resource
  • All other users within the system

There are two permissions levels, read and write. In contrast with POSIX, there is no execute permission on files in HDFS as files are not executables. Any user, or a user belonging to a group that has the read permission r, is only allowed to read the contents of...

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