Applications and permissions reference
Hue is a web-based UI for several cluster services that you can access by using Hue applications and their associated permissions.
Hue applications
These CDP services are available in Hue. Currently, Spark is only available in the upstream version of Hue.
| Hue Application | Application Dependencies |
|---|---|
| HBase | HBase Browser |
| HDFS | Core, File Browser |
| Hive | Metastore Tables, Hive Editor |
| Impala | Metastore Tables, Impala Editor |
| MapRed / YARN | Job Browser, Job Designer, Oozie, Hive Editor, Pig, Sqoop |
| Oozie | Job Designer, Oozie Editor/Dashboard |
| Solr (Search) | Hadoop Security |
| Spark | Spark |
Hue application permissions
Hue application permissions are composed of
name.permission:action.
For example, filebrowser.access:Launch this
application(3)
In this example:
filebrowser= Hue application nameaccess= Execute permissionsLaunch this application= Action that is enabled(3)= Process ID of thefilebrowserapplication in the Hue database
| Hue Application | Permission | Read/Write/Execute | Action Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| about | access | execute | Launch this application |
| beeswax | access | execute | Launch this application |
| dashboard | access | execute | Launch this application |
| filebrowser | access | execute | Launch this application |
| filebrowser | s3_access | execute | Access to S3 from filebrowser and filepicker |
| filebrowser | adls_access | execute | Access to ADLS from filebrowser and filepicker |
| filebrowser | abfs_access | execute | Access to ABFS from filebrowser and filepicker |
| filebrowser | gs_access | execute | Access to GS from filebrowser and filepicker |
| help | access | execute | Launch this application |
| hive | access | execute | Launch this application |
| impala | access | execute | Launch this application |
| indexer | access | execute | Launch this application |
| jobbrowser | access | execute | Launch this application |
| jobsub | access | execute | Launch this application |
| kafka | access | execute | Launch this application |
| metadata | access | execute | Launch this application |
| metadata | write | write | Allow edition of metadata like tags |
| metastore | access | execute | Launch this application |
| metastore | write | write | Allow DDL operations. Need the app access too |
| notebook | access | execute | Launch this application |
| oozie | access | execute | Launch this application |
| oozie | dashboard_jobs_access | execute | Oozie Dashboard read-only user for all jobs |
| oozie | disable_editor_access | execute | Disable Oozie Editor access |
| proxy | access | execute | Launch this application |
| rdbms | access | execute | Launch this application |
| search | access | execute | Launch this application |
| useradmin | access_view:useradmin:edit_user | read/write/execute | Access to profile page on User Admin |
| useradmin | access_view:useradmin:view_user | read/write/execute | Access to any profile page on User Admin |
| useradmin | access | execute | Launch this application |
