Using Custom Authentication
This section describes how to use Hadoop pseudo authentication for custom authentication.
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hbase-site.xml
file is the procedure to follow if you
want to use Hadoop pseudo authentication. Alternatively, you can write and use your own
authenticator to substitute for the "simple" configuration by implementing the Hadoop
AuthenticationHandler interface. If you are using custom authentication, place your
authenticator jar in the following directory:
/opt/mapr/hbase/hbase-<hbase_version>/lib/
Then start the REST Gateway.