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5.1 Administration
This section contains administration information such as managing your cluster, data, users, jobs and security information such as configuring your security environment and auditing.
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Managing the Cluster
Managing Roles and Services
Changing the User for MapR Services
Running MapR Services as the Root User

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Running MapR Services as the Root User

Procedure

Stop Warden: service mapr-warden stop
```
service mapr-warden stop
```
If ZooKeeper is installed on the node, stop it: service mapr-zookeeper stop
```
service mapr-zookeeper stop
```
Run the script $INSTALL_DIR/server/config-mapr-user.sh -u root
If Zookeeper is installed, start it: service mapr-zookeeper start
```
service mapr-zookeeper start
```
Start Warden: service mapr-warden start
```
service mapr-warden start
```