Configuring Cloudera Navigator to use external authentication
Cloudera, author of one of the most popular Hadoop distributions, has created a great tool for Hadoop security monitoring and auditing, called Cloudera Navigator. I find its initial configuration process a little bit tricky, so I wanted to document it in this post. Cloudera’s original document on how to do this is located here: http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/documentation/core/latest/topics/cn_sg_external_auth.html I currently use the latest version of Cloudera Hadoop distribution with Cloudera Manager 5.3.1 (trial enterprise license) and Navigator 2....