This is the documentation for Cloudera Enterprise 5.8.x. Documentation for other versions is available at Cloudera Documentation.

Enabling Kerberos Authentication Without the Wizard

Minimum Required Role: Configurator (also provided by Cluster Administrator, Full Administrator)

Note that certain steps in the following procedure to configure Kerberos security may not be completed without Full Administrator role privileges.

  Important: Ensure you have secured communication between the Cloudera Manager Server and Agents before you enable Kerberos on your cluster. Kerberos keytabs are sent from the Cloudera Manager Server to the Agents, and must be encrypted to prevent potential misuse of leaked keytabs. For secure communication, you should have at least Level 1 TLS enabled as described in Configuring TLS Security for Cloudera Manager (Level 1).
  • Prerequisites - These instructions assume you know how to install and configure Kerberos, you already have a working Kerberos key distribution center (KDC) and realm setup, and that you've installed the following Kerberos client packages on all cluster hosts and hosts that will be used to access the cluster, depending on the OS in use.
    OS Packages to be Installed
    RHEL/CentOS 5, RHEL/CentOS 6
    • openldap-clients on the Cloudera Manager Server host
    • krb5-workstation, krb5-libs on ALL hosts
    SLES
    • openldap2-client on the Cloudera Manager Server host
    • krb5-client on ALL hosts
    Ubuntu or Debian
    • ldap-utils on the Cloudera Manager Server host
    • krb5-user on ALL hosts
    Windows
    • krb5-workstation, krb5-libs on ALL hosts
    Furthermore, Oozie and Hue require that the realm support renewable tickets. Cloudera Manager supports setting up kerberized clusters with MIT KDC and Active Directory.
      Important: If you want to integrate Kerberos directly with Active Directory, ensure you have support from your AD administration team to do so. This includes any future support required to troubleshoot issues such as Kerberos TGT/TGS ticket renewal, access to KDC logs for debugging and so on.

    For more information about using an Active Directory KDC, refer the section below on Considerations when using an Active Directory KDC and the Microsoft AD documentation.

    For more information about installing and configuring MIT KDC, see:
  • Support
    • Kerberos security in Cloudera Manager has been tested on the following version of MIT Kerberos 5:
      • krb5-1.6.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and CentOS 5
    • Kerberos security in Cloudera Manager is supported on the following versions of MIT Kerberos 5:
      • krb5-1.6.3 on 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
      In addition, Cloudera supports the version of Kerberos that ships with each supported operating system. See CDH and Cloudera Manager Supported Operating Systems.

Here are the general steps to using Cloudera Manager to configure Hadoop security on your cluster, each of which is described in more detail in the following sections:

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