Creating Job Queue ACLs

Describes how to control job actions.

About this task

A job queue ACL controls who can submit jobs to a queue, kill jobs, or modify their priority. The default behavior is that any user can submit a job, and jobs can only be seen and killed by the administrator or the user that submitted those jobs.

To create a job queue ACL, specify the following parameters in the mapred-queue-acls.xml file, then restart the JobTracker:

Parameter What it does
mapred.queue.names queue1,queue2,... Names the queues to which jobs can be submitted.
mapred.acls.enabled=true Indicates that ACLs will be checked whenever a user or group submits a job, tries to kill a job, or tries to change its priority. This parameter is set to true by default when security features for your cluster are enabled.
mapred.queue.<queue-name>.acl-submit-job user1,user2,... group1,group2,... Identifies the users and groups that can submit jobs to the specified queue-name.
mapred.queue.<queue-name>.acl-administer-job user1,user2,... group1,group2,... Identifies the users and groups that can change the priority or kill jobs submitted to the specified queue-name. Note that the job owner can always kill his own job or change its priority.

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For information on configuring queue properties, see Configuring Properties for Queues. You can also set job initialization parameters for a queue.