Enabling Kerberos Authentication for Hadoop Using the Command Line

Kerberos security in CDH 5 has been tested with the following version of MIT Kerberos 5:

  • krb5-1.6.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and CentOS 5

Kerberos security in CDH 5 is supported with the following versions of MIT Kerberos 5:

  • krb5-1.6.3 on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 Service Pack 1
  • krb5-1.8.1 on Ubuntu
  • krb5-1.8.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and CentOS 6
  • krb5-1.9 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1

If you want to enable Kerberos SPNEGO-based authentication for the Hadoop web interfaces, see the Hadoop Auth, Java HTTP SPNEGO Documentation.