Cloudera user

To perform tasks using Cloudera and its services, you must be a Cloudera user with the required roles and resources assigned.

Cloudera allows users within your organization to log in to Cloudera through the authentication system in your organization without registering with Cloudera or creating a Cloudera account. During the initial process of configuring the environment, the account administrator must set up identity federation and thus automatically add users.

When a Cloudera user who is not an account administrator logs in to Cloudera for the first time, the user has limited privileges. A Cloudera administrator must assign the appropriate roles to the user after the initial user login.

The Cloudera account administrator can revoke permissions for a Cloudera user account. When you revoke permissions for a user, ensure that you remove all the roles that grant the permissions that you want to revoke.

To revoke all permissions granted to a user, complete the following steps:

• Remove all roles assigned to the user.
• Delete any access key created for the user.

A user who has a valid account in Cloudera but is not assigned any role can perform a limited number of tasks. A user who logs in to the Cloudera console without an assigned role or environment can perform only the following task:

• View the Cloudera documentation.