Installing Apache Ranger
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Additional Ranger Plugin Steps for Kerberos: HBase

How to enable the Ranger HBase plugin on a Kerberos cluster.

This procedure assumes that you have already completed “Customize Services: Plugins”.

  1. Create the system (OS) user rangerhbaselookup. Make sure this user is synced to Ranger Admin (under users/groups tab in the Ranger Admin UI).
  2. Create a Kerberos principal for rangerhbaselookup: kadmin.local -q 'addprinc -pw rangerhbaselookup rangerhbaselookup@example.com.
  3. Navigate to the HBase service.
  4. Click the Config tab and go to advanced ranger-hbase-plugin-properties.
  5. Update the following properties with the values listed in the table below.
    Table 1. HBase Plugin Properties
    Configuration Property Name Value
    Ranger service config user rangerhbaselookup@example.com
    Ranger service config password rangerhbaselookup
    common.name.for.certificate blank
  6. After updating these properties, click Save and then restart the HBase service.