Hi Roberta! > On Dec 13, 2016, at 11:04 AM, Roberta Marton <[email protected]> wrote: > > I work on Apache Trafodion and have been asked to evaluate integration of > Trafodion with Sentry. > My background includes supporting privileges for Trafodion and am very > familiar with the basics of users, roles, privileges, and groups. > I read through much of the documentation from the Sentry site but have many > questions. > > First off, I wanted to just install Sentry and play with it a bit to see how > things work. I did install it through Cloudera manager but not sure how to > proceed. > From reading the documentation, it looks like I should be able to run > sentryShell and try creating some roles but sentryShell is not installed on > my system. I looked through existing documentation but could not find out > how to install it. Do I need Hive, Hue, or Impala in order to play with > Sentry? So, how does sentryShell get installed?
The SentryShell is only available for Apache Sentry but not for CDH version Sentry. Usually people interact with Sentry with tools like Hive or Hue. I wrote a simple Sentry CLI (see https://github.com/akolb1/sentrytool <https://github.com/akolb1/sentrytool>) which works with any Sentry server - Apache or CDH. This is, probably, the easiest way to play with Sentry but it has one caveat - it doesn’t work in Kerberos environments. - Alex
