On 6/11/08 5:17 PM, "Chris Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The finer point to this is that in development you may be logged in as
> user x and have a shared hdfs instance that a number of people are
> using. In that mode its not practical to sudo as you have all your
> development tools setup for userx. hdfs is setup with a single user,
> what is the procedure to add users to that hdfs instance? It has to
> support it surely? Its really not obvious, looking in the hdfs docs
> that come with the distro nothing springs out. the hadoop command
> line tool doesnt have anything that vaguely looks like a way to create
> a user.
User information is sent from the client. The code literally does a
'whoami' and 'groups' and sends that information to the server.
Shared data should be handled just like you would in UNIX:
- create a directory
- set permissions to be insecure
- go crazy
