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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
Security Architecture
Describes the default security architecture and additional authentication and encryption capabilities.
Authentication Architecture: the maprlogin Utility

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.
    - Authentication Architecture: the maprlogin Utility
      - Authentication Flow
    - Authorization Architecture: ACLs and ACEs
    - Encryption Architecture: Wire-Level Security
      Provides information that allows you to understand encryption across the MapR platform.
    - Security Protocols Used by MapR
  - 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.
  - Auditing of Cluster Administration and Operations on Directories, Files, Tables, and Streams
    Describes how to process and use audit records to improve data analysis.

Authentication Architecture: the maprlogin Utility

The maprlogin utility supports user authentication with either username and password or Kerberos to generate a unique session token called a ticket. The following diagram outlines the process flow: