User Impersonation
Describes how to disable, enable, and use impersonation with Kafka Connect.
User impersonation enables Kafka Connect jobs to be submitted as a particular user. Without impersonation, Kafka Connect submits jobs as the user that started the worker
On a HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric cluster,
the impersonated user is typically the mapr
user or the user specified in the
MAPR_USER environment variable. By default, impersonation and PAM authentication in Kafka
Connect are enabled on all types of security.
Disabling User Impersonation
To disable user impersonation, disable the PAM authentication and impersonation properties
in the
opt/mapr/kafka/kafka-<version>/config/connect-distributed.properties
file.
- To disable PAM authentication, set
authentication.enable=false
. - To disable impersonation, set
impersonation.enable=false
.