PAM Authentication for HttpFS

About this task

Complete the following steps to enable PAM authentication for HttpFS.

Procedure

  1. Un-comment the following text in web.xml (/opt/mapr/httpfs/httpfs-1.0/share/hadoop/httpfs/tomcat/webapps/webhdfs/WEB-INF/web.xml): 
    <security-constraint>
   <web-resource-collection>
        <web-resource-name>Admin</web-resource-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> 
  </web-resource-collection> 

   <auth-constraint>
         <role-name>*</role-name> 
   </auth-constraint>
 </security-constraint>

<security-role>
    <role-name>*</role-name>
</security-role> 

<login-config> 
     <auth-method>BASIC</auth-method>
</login-config>
  2. Rename the context.xml.jpamLogin (/opt/mapr/httpfs/httpfs-1.0/share/hadoop/httpfs/tomcat/webapps/webhdfs/META-INF/context.xml.jpamLogin) to context.xml. 
    mv /opt/mapr/httpfs/httpfs-1.0/share/hadoop/httpfs/tomcat/webapps/webhdfs/META-INF/context.xml.jpamLogin /opt/mapr/httpfs/httpfs-1.0/share/hadoop/httpfs/tomcat/webapps/webhdfs/META-INF/context.xml
  3. Restart the HttpFS service. 
    sudo -u mapr /opt/mapr/httpfs/httpfs-1.0/sbin/httpfs.sh stop
sudo -u mapr /opt/mapr/httpfs/httpfs-1.0/sbin/httpfs.sh start