Hadoop Impersonation Mode

You can configure how Data Collector impersonates a Hadoop user when performing tasks, such as reading or writing data, in Hadoop systems.

The system administrator can configure Data Collector to always use the user who starts the pipeline by enabling the stage.conf_hadoop.always.impersonate.current.user property in the Data Collector configuration file. When enabled, configuring a user within a stage is not allowed.

Configure Data Collector to always impersonate as the user who starts the pipeline when you want to prevent access to data in Hadoop systems by stage-level user properties.

For example, say you use roles, groups, and pipeline permissions to ensure that only authorized operators can start pipelines. You expect that the operator user accounts are used to access all external systems. But a pipeline developer can specify a HDFS user in a Hadoop stage and bypass your attempts at security. To close this loophole, configure Data Collector to always use the currently logged in Data Collector user to read from or write to Hadoop systems.

To always use the user who starts the pipeline, in the Data Collector configuration file, uncomment the stage.conf_hadoop.always.impersonate.current.user property and set it to true