You are viewing a plain text version of this content. The canonical link for it is here.

Posted to user@hbase.apache.org by Denis Weerasiri <dd...@gmail.com> on 2014/07/15 11:48:10 UTC

Simple user based authentication for HBase

Hi all,
Is there a way to add simple username and password authentication in latest
HBase?

-- 
Thanks,
Denis

Re: Simple user based authentication for HBase

Posted by Denis Weerasiri <dd...@gmail.com>.

Thanks Dima


On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 5:50 AM, Dima Spivak <ds...@cloudera.com> wrote:

> Dear Denis,
>
> HBase supports user authentication through an RPC-level implementation
> using SASL. Matteo Bertozzi has a nice blog post up describing this and
> showing the most common case of Kerberos (though other authentication
> systems can be used, as well). See:
>
> http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2012/09/understanding-user-authentication-and-authorization-in-apache-hbase/
>
> Cheers,
>    Dima
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 2:48 AM, Denis Weerasiri <dd...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > Is there a way to add simple username and password authentication in
> latest
> > HBase?
> >
> > --
> > Thanks,
> > Denis
> >
>



-- 
Thanks,
Denis Weerasiri

Sent from my iPhone

Re: Simple user based authentication for HBase

Posted by Dima Spivak <ds...@cloudera.com>.

Dear Denis,

HBase supports user authentication through an RPC-level implementation
using SASL. Matteo Bertozzi has a nice blog post up describing this and
showing the most common case of Kerberos (though other authentication
systems can be used, as well). See:
http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2012/09/understanding-user-authentication-and-authorization-in-apache-hbase/

Cheers,
   Dima

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 2:48 AM, Denis Weerasiri <dd...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
> Is there a way to add simple username and password authentication in latest
> HBase?
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Denis
>