How about playing with 'whoami'? :) % export PATH=.:$PATH
% cat whoami #!/bin/sh echo mynewname % whoami mynewname % Koji On 1/16/12 9:02 AM, "Eli Finkelshteyn" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > I'm still lost on this. Has no one wanted or needed to connect to a > Hadoop cluster from a client machine under a name other than the > client's whoami before? > > Eli > > On 1/13/12 11:00 AM, Eli Finkelshteyn wrote: >> I tried this, and it doesn't seem to work. Specifically, the way I >> tested it was adding: >> >> <property> >> <name>user.name</name> >> <value>[my_username]</value> >> </property> >> >> to core-site.xml. I then tried a test mkdir, and did an ls which >> showed the new folder had been created by my default whoami client >> username instead of the new one I had set. Do I need to add it >> somewhere else, or add something else to the property name? I'm using >> CDH3 with my Hadoop cluster currently setup with one node in >> pseudo-distributed mode, in case that helps. >> >> Cheers, >> Eli >> >> On 1/12/12 5:39 PM, Joey Echeverria wrote: >>> Set the user.name property in your core-site.xml on your client nodes. >>> >>> -Joey >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Eli >>> Finkelshteyn<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> If I have one username on a hadoop cluster and would like to set >>>> myself up >>>> to use that same username from every client from which I access the >>>> cluster, >>>> how can I go about doing that? I found information about setting >>>> hadoop.job.ugi, and have tried setting this property variously in >>>> hdfs-site.xml, core-site.xml, and mapred-site.xml, but nothing seems to >>>> work. All I want is to be able to look like the same user no matter >>>> which of >>>> my machines I connect to the cluster from. How can I do this? >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> Eli >>> >>> >> >
