As far as I'm aware, in Hadoop 0.20, you're right that that's the case. In versions of Hadoop that have security, some of the web interfaces have been secured away.
The open source Hue project (https://github.com/cloudera/hue) has a file browser that's independent of Hadoop's web UIs. Some of Cloudera's customers use that in combination with firewalling away the namenode interfaces directly. -- Philip On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 2:37 AM, Evert Lammerts <evert.lamme...@sara.nl>wrote: > Hi list, > > If I open up port 50070 on my namenode to the world, in order to provide > the > web interface to HDFS, will the /fsck namespace be available to arbitrary > people? > > Cheers, > > Evert Lammerts > Consultant eScience Support > SARA Computing & Network Services > High Performance Computing & Visualization > > Phone: +31 20 888 4101 > Email: evert.lamme...@sara.nl > http://www.sara.nl > > >
