Are you using one of the security enabled releases of Hadoop
(0.20.20x,1.0.x,0.23.x,CDH3)? Assuming you are, you need to do something
like the following to impersonate a user:
You'll need to modify your code to use something like this:
UserGroupInformation.createRemoteUser("cuser").doAs(new
PrivilegedExceptionAction()... {
void run() {
// submit my evil job
}
};
-Joey
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Jose Luis Soler <joso...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is there some way to force the owner (user name) of a Job sent to a Hadoop
> cluster?
>
> I'm trying to use the following code when configuring the job:
>
> JobConf job = new JobConf();
>
> job.setUser("desiredUserName")**;
>
> but it seems to have no effect as the job owner is sent as the user I'm
> logged into the system.
>
> Even I tried this:
>
> System.set("user.name", "desiredUserName")
>
> and this, at the command line when running the job:
>
> -Duser.name=desiredUserName
>
> getting no different result.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Jose
>
>
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