Security at file level in Hadoop

2012-02-22 Thread Shreya.Pal
Hi I want to implement security at file level in Hadoop, essentially restricting certain data to certain users. Ex - File A can be accessed only by a user X File B can be accessed by only user X and user Y Is this possible in Hadoop, how do we do it? At what level are these permissions

Security at file level in Hadoop

2012-02-22 Thread Shreya.Pal
Hi I want to implement security at file level in Hadoop, essentially restricting certain data to certain users. Ex - File A can be accessed only by a user X File B can be accessed by only user X and user Y Is this possible in Hadoop, how do we do it? At what level are these permissions

Re: Security at file level in Hadoop

2012-02-22 Thread Ben Smithers
will need to be applied after putting files into HDFS. Hope that helps, Ben On 22 February 2012 10:41, shreya@cognizant.com wrote: Hi I want to implement security at file level in Hadoop, essentially restricting certain data to certain users. Ex - File A can be accessed only

Re: Security at file level in Hadoop

2012-02-22 Thread praveenesh kumar
permissions will need to be applied after putting files into HDFS. Hope that helps, Ben On 22 February 2012 10:41, shreya@cognizant.com wrote: Hi I want to implement security at file level in Hadoop, essentially restricting certain data to certain users. Ex - File

Re: Security at file level in Hadoop

2012-02-22 Thread Joey Echeverria
at file level in Hadoop, essentially restricting certain data to certain users. Ex - File A can be accessed only by a user X File B can be accessed by only user X and user Y Is this possible in Hadoop, how do we do it? At what level are these permissions applied (before copying to HDFS

Re: Security at file level in Hadoop

2012-02-22 Thread Praveen Sripati
and directory permissions (read, write, execute) for the owner, group and world. You can change the permissions with hadoop fs -chmod permissions path -Joey On Feb 22, 2012, at 5:32, shreya@cognizant.com wrote: Hi I want to implement security at file level in Hadoop