Cloudera account administrator

Cloudera designates a default user account as a Cloudera account administrator during the initial setup.

A Cloudera account administrator has administrator privileges in Cloudera. The Cloudera account administrator user account cannot be managed within Cloudera. The default username and password for Cloudera account administrator is admin/admin. You should consider changing the default password for security purposes. You must contact Cloudera support to add or remove an account administrator from your Cloudera account.

As an account administrator, you have all the privileges in Cloudera and can perform any task. You can set up users and assign roles, services, and environments to users in Cloudera according to the tasks that they need to perform. You can set up another user as a Cloudera administrator by assigning the PowerUser role to the user. However, you cannot set up another user as a Cloudera account administrator.