Creating a group
Create Cloudera groups based on the tasks performed by Cloudera users in your organization.
Before you begin
Consider the following when selecting a name for your group:
- The group name must be unique. Note that there are certain group names that are reserved and therefore cannot be used in Cloudera. See Reserved group names.
- The group name can be up to 64 characters and can include only alphanumeric characters, dots (.), hyphens (-), and underscores (_). The first character in the name must be an alphabetic character or underscore.
- The group name is not case sensitive. For example, the group name AAa is equivalent to the group name aaa.
- Depending on your IdP setup in Cloudera, you may be able to manipulate the Sync Membership option. To learn more about this option, refer to Synchronizing group membership.
Required role: PowerUser
Steps
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Sign in to the Cloudera console.
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From the Cloudera home page, click Cloudera Management Console.
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In the User Management section of the side navigation panel, click Groups.
The Groups page displays the list of all Cloudera groups. -
Click Create Group.
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On the Create Group window, enter the name of the group to create.
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Click Create.
Cloudera creates the group and adds it to the list of Cloudera groups on the Groups page.
You can use the following command to create a group:
cdp iam create-group \
--group-name <value>
What to do next
You need to perform user sync for the change to take effect. See Performing user sync.