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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.
Security Guide
Configuring MapR Security
Describes how to enable security features and configure the components on a secure cluster.
Access Control Lists
Describes how to create different types of ACLs.
Creating Cluster-Level ACLs
Describes how to control access to and actions on a cluster.

MapR 5.1 Documentation

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.
- Administrator Guide
- Security Guide
  - Security Overview
    Describes the security features of the MapR Converged Data Platform.
  - Security Architecture
    Describes the default security architecture and additional authentication and encryption capabilities.
  - Logging into a Secure Cluster
    Describes how to use tickets to access a secure MapR cluster.
  - Tickets and Certificates
    Describes how tickets and certificates authenticate users and servers to a cluster.
  - Getting Started with MapR Security
    Describes the two core scenarios that allow quick implementation of security features.
  - Configuring MapR Security
    Describes how to enable security features and configure the components on a secure cluster.
    - Enabling and Disabling Security Features on Your Cluster
      Describes how to enable and disable wire-level security on the nodes of your cluster.
    - Configuring Impersonation
      Describes how to use impersonation to centralize control over user actions.
    - Running Commands on Remote Secure Clusters
      Describes how to manage multiple secure clusters from one secure cluster.
    - Adding Cross-Cluster Tickets to Secure Clusters
      Describes how to add cross-cluster tickets to secure clusters that push and pull data.
    - PAM Configuration
      Describes how to use PAM to verify passwords.
    - Secured TaskTracker
      Describes how to control user access to TaskTracker.
    - Access Control Lists
      Describes how to create different types of ACLs.
      - Creating Cluster-Level ACLs
        Describes how to control access to and actions on a cluster.
        Creating an ACL from the MCS
        Describes how to use the MCS to control access to a cluster.
        Creating an ACL from the Command Line
        Describes how to use the Command Line to control access to a cluster.
      - Creating Job Queue ACLs
        Describes how to control job actions.
      - Creating Volume-Level ACLs
        Describes how to control access to and actions on a cluster.
    - Access Control Expressions
      Describes how to use ACEs to control user permissions for MapR-DB tables.
    - Permissions
      Describes requirements for API user permissions and file permissions.
    - Securing Open Source Components
      Describes how to use JAAS to configure security for open source components.
    - Configuring Kerberos User Authentication
      Describes how to configure Kerberos for the CLDB.
    - Mirror Volumes and Secure Clusters
      Describes how to configure security for the source and destination clusters of a mirror.
    - Configuring a MapR Cluster to Access a HDFS Cluster
      Describes how to create a connection between a MapR cluster and an HDFS cluster.
  - Auditing of Cluster Administration and Operations on Directories, Files, Tables, and Streams
    Describes how to process and use audit records to improve data analysis.

Creating Cluster-Level ACLs

Describes how to control access to and actions on a cluster.

A cluster-level Access Control List (ACL) determines who has access to a cluster and which actions they are allowed to perform. ACLs on a secure MapR cluster are predicated on a locally managed OS registry.

WARNING: Before you create an ACL that applies to a particular group, you must create that group and assign users to it.

For example, the Red Hat Linux commands for creating a group called developers and adding a user named jsmith on a locally managed OS registry are:

groupadd developers
useradd -g developers jsmith

Once users and groups have been defined, an administrator can create a cluster-level ACL in either of two ways: