How would you propose we use SELinux features to support security,
especially in a distributed manner where clients might be under different
administrative controls? What about the non-Linux platforms that Hadoop runs
on?
On Mar 26, 2015, at 3:46 AM, Madhan Sundararajan <madhan.sundarara...@tcs.com>
wrote:
> Team,
>
> SELINUX was introduced to bring in a robust security management in Linux
> OS.
>
> In all distributions of Hadoop (Cloudera/Hortonworks/...) one of the
> pre-installation checklist items is to disable SELINUX in all the nodes of
> the cluster.
>
> Why not re-use the security model offered by SELINUX setting instead of
> re-inventing from scratch through Sentry/Knox/etc...?
>
> Regards
> Madhan Sundararajan Devaki
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