We use HDFS Proxy which is part of contrib. The new version yet to be released has both R+W and supports SPNEGO (Kerberos over HTTP). Its been working well for us.
Thanks, Venkatesh On 11/26/10 12:46 AM, "Evert Lammerts" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi list, > > We're considering to provide our users with FTP and WebDAV interfaces (with > software provided here: http://www.hadoop.iponweb.net/). These both support > user accounts, so we'll be able to deal with authentication. We're > evaluating Cloudera's Hue, which we have coupled to our LDAP service for > authentication, as an interface to MapReduce. > > These solutions are not the most beautiful in terms of authentication. We'd > much prefer to use Kerberos as provided by Y!. But if we do so, how will we > enable users to get data from the outside world onto HDFS? How do others > provide secure but easy interfaces to HDFS? > > Kind regards, > Evert Lammerts >
