After you have Kerberos credentials, you can verify that Kerberos security is working on your cluster by trying to run MapReduce jobs. To confirm, try launching a sleep or a pi job from the provided Hadoop examples (/usr/lib/hadoop/hadoop-examples.jar).

  Note:

This section assumes you have a fully-functional CDH cluster and you have been able to access HDFS and run MapReduce jobs before you followed these instructions to configure and enable Kerberos on your cluster. If you have not already done so, you should at a minimum use the Cloudera Manager Admin Console to generate a client configuration file to enable you to access the cluster. For instructions, see Deploying Client Configuration Files.

To verify that Kerberos security is working:

1. Acquire Kerberos credentials for your user account.

   $ kinit USERNAME@YOUR-LOCAL-REALM.COM 

2. Enter a password when prompted.
3. Submit a sample pi calculation as a test MapReduce job. Use the following command if you use a package-based setup for Cloudera Manager:

   $ hadoop jar /usr/lib/hadoop-0.20-mapreduce/hadoop-examples.jar pi 10 10000
   Number of Maps = 10
   Samples per Map = 10000
   ...
   Job Finished in 38.572 seconds
   Estimated value of Pi is 3.14120000000000000000

   If you have a parcel-based setup, use the following command instead:

   $ hadoop jar /opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH/lib/hadoop-0.20-mapreduce/hadoop-examples.jar pi 10 10000
   Number of Maps = 10
   Samples per Map = 10000
   ...
   Job Finished in 30.958 seconds
   Estimated value of Pi is 3.14120000000000000000

You have now verified that Kerberos security is working on your cluster.

  Important:

Running a MapReduce job will fail if you do not have a valid Kerberos ticket in your credentials cache. You can examine the Kerberos tickets currently in your credentials cache by running the klist command. You can obtain a ticket by running the kinit command and either specifying a keytab file containing credentials, or entering the password for your principal. If you do not have a valid ticket, you will receive an error such as:

11/01/04 12:08:12 WARN ipc.Client:
Exception encountered while connecting to the server :
javax.security.sasl.SaslException:GSS initiate failed
[Caused by GSSException: No valid credentials provided (Mechanism level: Failed to find any
Kerberos tgt)]
Bad connection to FS. command aborted. exception: Call to nn-host/10.0.0.2:8020 failed on local exception:
java.io.IOException:javax.security.sasl.SaslException: GSS initiate failed
[Caused by GSSException: No valid credentials provided
(Mechanism level: Failed to find any Kerberos tgt)]