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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 Expressions
Describes how to use ACEs to control user permissions for MapR-DB tables.
Enabling Table Authorizations with Access Control Expressions
Describes how to set permissions for tables.
Table Permissions for Older Releases
Describes how to set table permissions in the file system for older MapR versions.

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.
    - Access Control Expressions
      Describes how to use ACEs to control user permissions for MapR-DB tables.
      - Syntax of Access Control Expressions
        Describes how to use boolean expressions to combine user, group, and role definitions.
      - Creating User Roles for Access Control Expressions
        Describes how to define user actions through roles.
      - Enabling Table Authorizations with Access Control Expressions
        Describes how to set permissions for tables.
        Defining ACEs with the MCS by using the Expression Builder
        Describes how to change table permissions using the MCS.
        Defining ACEs by using maprcli commands
        Describes how to change table permissions using maprcli commands.
        Table Permissions for Older Releases
        Describes how to set table permissions in the file system for older MapR versions.
      - Access Control Expressions for MapR-FS
        Describes how to define access to files, directories, and whole volume data using user, group, and role definitions.
    - 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.

Table Permissions for Older Releases

Describes how to set table permissions in the file system for older MapR versions.

Because MapR tables are stored at the file-system level, you can also set permissions for MapR-DB tables directly in the file system, if your version of MapR does not support Access Control Expressions (ACEs). Support for ACEs was introduced in version 3.1.

To set permissions in the directly in the file system, see Filesystem Operations on MapR-DB Tables.