Enabling Impersonation on a Non-Secure Cluster

About this task

To enable impersonation on a non-secure cluster, follow these steps:

Procedure

  1. Install the mapr-hbase package on a cluster that is running version 4.0.2 or later. This package contains all of the HBase binaries. For installation details, see HBase Client and HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database.
  2. Enable simple authentication via the REST Gateway by appending the following property to the hbase-site.xml file (/opt/mapr/hbase/hbase­<hbase_version>/conf/hbase-site.xml): The simple authentication protocol is a Hadoop pseudo authenticator that serves as an example and is part of the hadoop-common package. 
    <property>
<name>hbase.rest.authentication.type</name>
<value>simple</value>
</property>
  3. Set the following environment variable to enable impersonation: 
    export MAPR_IMPERSONATION_ENABLED=1
  4. Start the REST Gateway server as the MAPR_USER. 
    /opt/mapr/hbase/hbase­<hbase_version>/bin/hbase-daemon.sh start rest -p port